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The one question I had reading this was... why then travel to the foreign country? You're enmeshed in the same basic experience you had in your domestic countr

The one question I had reading this was... why then travel to the foreign country? You're enmeshed in the same basic experience you had in your domestic country, except you had to sit in a plane or on a train for hours to get there. I would recommend, every once in a while, a complete disconnect. Tell people you'll be out of touch for a week, entirely. Get a topological map of an area, get a compass, get an altimeter, and get a GPS satellite reciever (no, not a cell phone, a device that GPS-triangulates your latitude/longitude from GPS satellite signals) so you can see where you are on your topo map. Carry cash only. The location could be a wilderness area that you backpack into, a small town on the seaside with a hotel reservation set aside for you, something like that. Walk around, read a book, take photos on a camera with no internet connectivity to look at later, write in your journal, eat a meal. Terrifying thought, isn't it? Separation anxiety is a thing, in the digitally connected world.

JasonFruit 4y ago
Terrifying? It sounds thrilling!
- geysersam 4y ago
  Right! The world is so accessible nowadays. You can travel light and far without much money. You don't have to rely on hotels and travel agencies to find a place to live and get information about the area.
martythemaniak 4y ago
Is finding this "terrifying" a young people thing? I'm mostly confused by this, because it's both very ordinary and rather nonsensical. First, backpacking in the wilderness with a topographical map is a vastly, vastly different experience than staying a random town, where you have access to anything. Also, why use GPS and stare at a screen instead of you know, locating yourself using the trail markers, ridges, etc? Is eating a meal and reading a book something people don't do all the time? Also, what camera is this? A phone with airplane mode on? Are you not allowed to store the pictures online, is a physical media transfer required, what's going on? What role does cash play here? I'm really confused.
teddyh 4y ago
> You're enmeshed in the same basic experience you had in your domestic country, except you had to sit in a plane or on a train for hours to get there. http://www.threepanelsoul.com/comic/getting-away http://www.threepanelsoul.com/comic/getting-away
edent 4y ago
What makes you think I didn't do all of that? I went to cool museums. Drank beers I'd never heard of. Ate weird new foods. And wandered down cool side streets. Most of the places were card only - and carrying cash is expensive. I read books in a park, chatted with locals. Wrote a blog post. I used to do all that too, before GPS and smartphones. This way is much better for me.
- h4n1 4y ago
  That's the point. You can travel to the other side of the earth and all you'll get is the same experience as you would at home, but there's other brands of beer and different stuff in the museums. This isn't a diverse world, this is just reskins of the same template.

JasonFruit 4y ago

Terrifying? It sounds thrilling!

geysersam 4y ago
Right! The world is so accessible nowadays. You can travel light and far without much money. You don't have to rely on hotels and travel agencies to find a place to live and get information about the area.

martythemaniak 4y ago

Is finding this "terrifying" a young people thing? I'm mostly confused by this, because it's both very ordinary and rather nonsensical. First, backpacking in the wilderness with a topographical map is a vastly, vastly different experience than staying a random town, where you have access to anything. Also, why use GPS and stare at a screen instead of you know, locating yourself using the trail markers, ridges, etc? Is eating a meal and reading a book something people don't do all the time? Also, what camera is this? A phone with airplane mode on? Are you not allowed to store the pictures online, is a physical media transfer required, what's going on? What role does cash play here? I'm really confused.

teddyh 4y ago

> You're enmeshed in the same basic experience you had in your domestic country, except you had to sit in a plane or on a train for hours to get there. http://www.threepanelsoul.com/comic/getting-away http://www.threepanelsoul.com/comic/getting-away

edent 4y ago

What makes you think I didn't do all of that? I went to cool museums. Drank beers I'd never heard of. Ate weird new foods. And wandered down cool side streets. Most of the places were card only - and carrying cash is expensive. I read books in a park, chatted with locals. Wrote a blog post. I used to do all that too, before GPS and smartphones. This way is much better for me.

h4n1 4y ago
That's the point. You can travel to the other side of the earth and all you'll get is the same experience as you would at home, but there's other brands of beer and different stuff in the museums. This isn't a diverse world, this is just reskins of the same template.