Are you happy?

[Tim Hicks (Texas)]

I think I paid $25 for the carload to enter Hawaii's Volcano National Park five times this year.

 

[Digger88]

So what is wrong with me that I don't care to travel at all.. I've been to the Bahamas and a few places on the east coast and Texas to see the Cowboy's play once. Bmac summed up my thoughts exactly a short while ago. His family went on a trip and he stayed back to work. Same bro. I have tons of fun right here I guess that's enough for me.

 

[Tim Hicks (Texas)]

So what is wrong with me that I don't care to travel at all.. I've been to the Bahamas and a few places on the east coast and Texas to see the Cowboy's play once. Bmac summed up my thoughts exactly a short while ago. His family went on a trip and he stayed back to work. Same bro. I have tons of fun right here I guess that's enough for me.

Have you never once wanted to see the Roman coliseum, Top of Europe, Eiffel Tower or the Tower of London? Maybe the vast majority of pubs in England sound appealing?

 

[Mike Ault]

So what is wrong with me that I don't care to travel at all.. I've been to the Bahamas and a few places on the east coast and Texas to see the Cowboy's play once. Bmac summed up my thoughts exactly a short while ago. His family went on a trip and he stayed back to work. Same bro. I have tons of fun right here I guess that's enough for me.

You should post pictures of the "fun" you're having.

 

[Fernando]

Have you never once wanted to see the Roman coliseum, Top of Europe, Eiffel Tower or the Tower of London? Maybe the vast majority of pubs in England sound appealing?

When in England, I tried one of their alcoholic drink in the pub. Forget if it was ale or something but the servers were so nice.
It tastes good. I can cross that off my bucket list.

 

[Digger88]

Have you never once wanted to see the Roman coliseum, Top of Europe, Eiffel Tower or the Tower of London? Maybe the vast majority of pubs in England sound appealing?

The lone item on my bucket list is to see old castles in England, Ireland and go to Italy to see my name in a phone book lol (it doesn't exist here)

You should post pictures of the "fun" you're having.

I can't post pics but they would most accurately be described as

Kelley
Cindy
Jules
Lizzy
Natasha (tonight she said, you have to go home, I don't f on the first date. "What are you doing tomorrow..." YOU

 

[Fernando]

No matter your budget or time, the "staycation" is an option. Yes, I'd love to go to Spain, Ireland, and Scotland. I would enjoy much of it. But there are parts of my state, my region, and parts of the SW, that I've yet to see. Why go to see Victoria Falls if you've never even visited Niagra Falls? Why worry about the alps if you've never seen the Rockies? And some things I'd like to revisit. Some things would bring back happy memories of things long past. How many National Parks have you NOT been to? Just a nice "Sunday Afternoon Drive" as they used to call it, cam be very relaxing. I thought about going now the "Pig Trail" today myself. Sadly, the man (Vernon Patton) has died after being mauled by a small bear while he was working on a tractor near the Blueberry farm just off Hwy 23. I didn't want to think about that sad event. But I did think perhaps I could make it to the lake and just watch the day go by.

I hope to make a loop soon thru OK, the panhandle of Texas and on to Ruidoso NM. I might fish for trout in the city park, bop over to see Three Rivers and White Sands one last time, and around to Carrizozo or Cloudcroft. Might drift by Midland and see if the old company building is still standing, and on to E Texas and one last visit to Bunyan Cemetery where my mother's grandfather and his brother are buried. I love history so I might even visit a small cemetery dedicated to Foxhounds. And no scenery is any better than to finish up the Wilhelmina Drive in the mountains of SE OK or Ouachita Mtns of SW Arkansas in the fall.

Yes, at my age I have no desire for an International trip. Too much trouble so if you have the means, by all means, travel before you turn 60 while you are probably healthy. Once you're in your seventies, trips are too tiring.

Last weekend while driving to Pinnacles, I had to go through farm country. While passing, I saw these old wooden buildings like from the old Wild West days and saw people wearing cowboy hats from a church wedding. I thought these views were from Texas like in a foreign country. Didn't realize in rural CA, these cowboy ways still exist.
And there was this homeless guy with full of junk in shopping cart with his dog out on the road in nowhere. Hope he had enough water and food in the scorching heat.
Yes, homeless are everywhere. What's happening to our country?

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

What's happening to our country?

in my youth, we had hobos still, often remanent of the depression, usually traveling along the rail roads. They marked the yard gates next to houses where people would give them food. They usually camped near the tracks in camps of 3 or 4 people. They "rode the rails" (the rails are mechanical brake lines under the boxcars.

Others lived that life, as my mother's uncle Pat, had a buggy and mare and he traveled to Kansas, sometimes by buggy and sometimes just a saddle horse, and worked the harvest season. Mind you this was in the 30s and 40s, when cars were pretty common. He never owned one. The mare would have a foal each year and he would break it to lead and sell in the fall. In winter he spent a few weeks at one of several relatives. Later in life, he went a bit looney, thinking the FBI was after him and such. He was otherwise pretty harmless but a mooch.
This is a picture of him. Like his brother (my g-grandpa) he was an expert horse trainer.

 

[ucbruin]

in my youth, we had hobos still, often remanent of the depression, usually traveling along the rail roads. They marked the yard gates next to houses where people would give them food. They usually camped near the tracks in camps of 3 or 4 people. They "rode the rails" (the rails are mechanical brake lines under the boxcars.

Others lived that life, as my mother's uncle Pat, had a buggy and mare and he traveled to Kansas, sometimes by buggy and sometimes just a saddle horse, and worked the harvest season. Mind you this was in the 30s and 40s, when cars were pretty common. He never owned one. The mare would have a foal each year and he would break it to lead and sell in the fall. In winter he spent a few weeks at one of several relatives. Later in life, he went a bit looney, thinking the FBI was after him and such. He was otherwise pretty harmless but a mooch.
This is a picture of him. Like his brother (my g-grandpa) he was an expert horse trainer.

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"Later in life, he went a bit looney, thinking the FBI was after him and such."

The youngest of my dad's 3 brothers thought the same thing....

 

[George Hatch]

I don't enjoy travel and I especially don't enjoy sightseeing. Just like I don't go for a drive just to go for a drive, or go for a walk just to go for a walk. I don't experience the need to get away from my life. I'm an introvert - I basically never get bored EXCEPT when I get cut off from the ability to switch tracks in my active thinking. I can't sit in the sun and think about nothing the way some people seem to be able to do. I can't enjoy meaningless small talk or socialize for no reason and no direction. I appreciate having something to think through - that's the form of escapism that scratches my itch..

My wife enjoys a short travel getaway every now and then. Fortunately she has her friends and family to work with on that score so she usually doesn't need me to tag along except to fly the flag for her family. For which I don't mind at all, I just wouldn't voluntarily seek it out for myself.