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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I sort of feel this way.  Now in my 50s my tolerance for things going wrong on travel is much decreased.  I don’t want to end up with some sketchy cab driver taking me God knows where (happened in my 20s) or in a hotel room that looks like a place women are trafficked (same).  
I also just feel like if I don’t get to see a particular place, that’s okay.  I’ve seen gorgeous mountains and cathedrals and lakes and beaches and art etc etc — sure seeing more of it is nice but it’s not really qualitatively different in kind.  I still like researching and planning.  I also get the “lonely when traveling” thing because my family often has different preferences than I do.  But I feel less alone in a city, so do like trips to cities where I can wander a museum or go window shopping by myself, which doesn’t feel so lonely.  I tend to avoid vacations where I will be stuck someplace isolating because if my family is not interested in joining me, I feel very pent up and lonely.  One time I did take artists pencils and a sketch book, and of course I always bring a book, but I’m not the type that wants to just sit a read for hours in a day.  [/quote]

Oh gosh in my 20s and even 30s I sought OUT those sketchy cab drivers and hotel rooms! My friend and I let someone we didn't know take us to some party way out of town in Turkey and my then-boyfriend and I went to go stay with some random guy and his wife in a little town in Tunisia, and we dropped in on a woman who told us she was a witch in India just to see what her house was like. I could go on and on and on.

I am not looking for that kind of adventure now. And travel is a lot less fun without it. I do like going away to random little towns with my husband now, but now we're more into off the beaten track stuff that doesn't end up with us possibly getting kidnapped. More of the quirky variety, not the people would shake their heads at me if this got me killed and it winded up in the newspaper variety.

Life was exciting back then, that's for sure. I don't mind this more comfortable stage of life either.[/quote]

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