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Being able to go on a road trip and end up in a different culture sounds awesome. I do that often in California, but there are only so many places you can go.
by starik36 5y ago
Being able to go on a road trip and end up in a different culture sounds awesome. I do that often in California, but there are only so many places you can go.
- mbg721 5y agoDrive fifty miles out from the suburbs of your hometown, sit down at a diner, and you can have something different. It might end with the cringeyness of the Top Gear guys, but it's there.
- Balero 5y ago> Being able to go on a road trip and end up in a different culture sounds awesome. I do that often in California, but there are only so many places you can go. You can take the train, no need to drive even better!
- boffinAudio 5y agoI absolutely love taking trips around the Balkans, and have been very lucky to have gotten quite familiar with Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia and Kosovo in my recent travels. In a matter of hours, the universal constants (language, food, culture) have been replaced, and there are just so, so many beautiful things to discover in these countries. Words to blow ones minds, history that brings tears with a few simple footsteps...
- teakettle42 5y ago> Words to blow ones minds, history that brings tears with a few simple footsteps... These are exactly the kinds of faux profundities I used to hear — and say! — traveling in youth hostels in my late teens. It’s jarring to see them coming from someone ostensibly past forty.
- boffinAudio 5y agoYou probably shouldn't have stopped travelling.
- teakettle42 5y agoI didn’t. My traveling companions are just a little wiser and more mature, now.
- boc 5y agoMy favorite thing about those countries is how American taxpayers sent American soldiers to stop violent wars and an actual genocide there within your lifetime. Did you go visit Srebrenica when you were there?