> If anything deviated from the plan, including me getting lost somewhere along the way, it all fell apart. I hate to say it, but this is exactly why most peo

> If anything deviated from the plan, including me getting lost somewhere along the way, it all fell apart. I hate to say it, but this is exactly why most people are tourists and not travelers: getting lost is the best part of traveling, it's only when you randomly find yourself in the most remote part of say Kyushu that you find the quaint ramen shop that you have the best bowl of Tonkotsu and meet a lot of people that were never mentioned in your AAA travel brochure when you realize what it really is all about. Nothing about what you said was how I traveled all over Europe back in 2012 and I probably did more in 2 weeks than you did in a year as a result. (I lived there for 3.5 years, and I speak over 5 languages now for those reasons.) Technology is fine, it's the person who makes it a replacement for Life that is my issue. With that said, I just traveled half way around the World with 5 phones, none of which had any data (and sim cards weren't recognized in some networks) and I got home fine.