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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe you just weren’t this prone to jealousy before?[/quote]

Who's jealous? It's just shallow and boring conversation. Shallow and boring is fine among professional work associates but family are only together a couple of times a year and THIS is the most spirited dialogue now? It's sad.[/quote]

Travel is not “shallow and boring conversation.” What do you want to discuss? Little Larlo’s soccer? Little Larlo is going into AAP? [/quote]

You piss money away [b]flying places to eat & booze to try to appear interesting. [/b]It's just mindless consumerism.[/quote]

I don't know anyone who travels for this reason.

Some influencers seem to, but that is there job after all. [/quote]

Not an influencer, but we are foodies and wine snobs, so yes our travel often revolves around picking restaurants and wine tasting.  But not like an influencer.  It's simply because it's something we love.  So if we are visiting France, it will include 2-3 days in a wine region, same for Italy or Spain.  Because it's something we love.  [/quote]

Flying around the globe to literally eat food and get drunk. Are you retirees without grandkids or bored out of your mind DINKs?[/quote]

Neither.  Close to early retirement, no grandkids yet (kids still in college/recent grad).  We fly around the world to see the world---we like to travel, we also like food and wine. So we integrate that into our vacations, if the country has it.  Why not visit Bordeaux or Chianti or Brunello Region as part of your vacation?   Why does that trigger you?

We are UHNW, so might as well spend our money and enjoy life while we can still travel (I'm guessing at 75 we might not want to be traveling quite as much)---so lets spend the next 20 years doing that.  We include our kids on the trips, when they can come.  Great family bonding time, and will continue to do so once they have SO/grandkids.  So many places to see.  And once we retire (in 6-12 months) we will add more travel.  Once grandkids arrive, we will spend more time traveling to our kids and spending 1-2 weeks several times per year with them.

So just living the life we want to.

But if you want to stay home and only travel to see your kids/grandkids go for it.  We prefer to do many more things with our life
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