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[quote=Anonymous]I agree with just about everyone on here. I'm also in a similar boat. I'm in my mid 40s and after a lifetime of travel, including substantial off the beaten path travel, the notion of traveling doesn't hold the same appeal any more. Some if it is the growing sameness of the major cities. Some of it is the hassles of flights. Some of it is because you reach a point where anything new you see is more likely to be a variant of what you've already seen. I don't get excited by museums any more and tend to see them as something to do on the last day while waiting to fly out the next morning. Some of it is also the explosion in crowds and mass tourism. Some countries have lost a great deal of distinctiveness in the last 20 years, the UK being a great example of a place that had a highly unique British character into the 1990s but most of that is now gone.

I still travel but it's now around a key activity. I did a cycling trip that was terrific as I loved the cycling. I did a 10 day hiking trip in the Swiss Alps that was gorgeous. The days of a mad rush just to see a different place and ticking off a list of all the local must-sees are now over.

There's also a long list of places I'd like to see here in the US, ideally combined with an activity, but shocker, it's now more expensive to travel in the US than to go overseas! [/quote]

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