Does anybody here enjoy traveling?

[michael b]

I agree...it depends on the traveling. I travel quite a bit for work. The trips are from a couple days to a couple weeks. Sometimes I get stuck in a lower end hotel and I try my hardest to stay out of the room. Other times, the rooms are nice like at a Marriott and I never want to leave the room. What is even worse is if I am sent to a place where there is simply nothing to do or see on my time off. As for family vacations, we as a family look forward to them and plan well in advance. Someone mentioned they did not like staying in expensive condos. You can stay in a condo for quite cheap, especially if you plan your trip in the off season. We were going to go to Florida and stay on the gulf this year. Our friends gave us this website to see what condos were available: www.bluesunproperties.com. We have not booked yet, but it seems to be cheaper than staying in a beachfront hotel/resort. Vacations are what you make them. For us, it is about taking our son and watching him have the time of his life. This year, we decided on Orlando instead to take him to Disney. Maybe in a year or two we can check out the Gulf.

 

[reynoldston]

Did a lot of traveling when I was younger. Been to all lower 48 states and Alaska. Not sorry I did it. Now that I am retired and all the time I want can't do it anymore. Wife can't walk anymore and we both can't seem to get away from the Doctors, prescriptions, and bills anymore. Just can't afford to travel anymore. For entertainment I do a few repairs ( mowers, motorcycles, ATV's and no cars anymore) and spend a lot of time on the computer and take a afternoon nap. I have been told that these are the golden ages but the doctors and drug companys are taking all the gold.

 

[Black Bart]

As for me, it seems inane to spend four days driving 75 mph to Florida and back, to spend a week in an overpriced condo ad sit on the balcony and watch the water. Makes no sense to me to pile up 2500 miles on a car going someplace to "relax". When I am not home I miss all my things and ESPECIALLY my four beloved boys, and I worry about them the whole time I am away. My wife loves to travel, she isn't the one who has to do everything involved in going away.

I hate to fly (expensive, cramped, risky, at the mercy of strangers) and hate to drive (expensive, cramped, boring, at the mercy of reckless other fools on the roads). We have gone to Florida many times, on cruises out of Miami about 8 times, traveled to other countries during the cruises but for the most part it's not fun to me. There is NOTHING, repeat NOTHING, out there that I need to see, or want to see. For the most part when I am away I get screamingly bored not being able to do the things I want to do.

Expensive lodging, overpriced meals, rude crowds, $4 a gallon gas, cramped airline seats, tourist traps intended to rip you off...I will NEVER understand why ANYBODY enjoys traveling. You spend all that time getting ready and going someplace, then when it's over you spend all that time unpacking and scrambling around trying to catch up on what you missed.

Well, I DO enjoy taking our motorhome out within Michigan, because I can take my things along and also my boys...but even after a week I miss home. There is NO PLACE I would rather be than home. People tell me, "you don't know what you are missing", yeah right.

That's how I feel and I wanted to pass it along.

Don't sound like you would make a long distance trucker.
After nearly 50 years of long distance trucking I enjoy just being able to stay home.:biggrin:
No place I really want to go if you throw a dart at a map of the USA wherever it hits I can say I have been their.
Been to places like New York Boston and Chicago thousands of times and hope that I never have to go their again ever.

 

[JDgreen]

Don't sound like you would make a long distance trucker.
After nearly 50 years of long distance trucking I enjoy just being able to stay home.:biggrin:
No place I really want to go if you throw a dart at a map of the USA wherever it hits I can say I have been their.
Been to places like New York Boston and Chicago thousands of times and hope that I never have to go their again ever.

I could never be a long distance trucker because I never liked to drive, was a delivery driver for State of Michigan for 31 years, drove commercial straight trucks up to 25 tons gross weight to every county here, some days I worked 14-15 hours and piled up over 500 miles and that is INCLUDING all the delivery stops I made. Not much of what I did was freeway driving. You spent a LOT longer driving than I did.

I guess I was lucky, got paid good money to see the entire state including all over the UP dozens of times, all expenses paid...very few state employees had a generous perk like that one....:thumbsup: :biggrin:

 

[Black Bart]

That is what I told a driver that was running double with me one time.
I said people save all year so they can come here and see the scenery and not only did you get a new Kenworth to drive but you got paid for coming, But he didn't see it that way. :laughing:

For 14 years I hauled livestock long distances no lost time loading or unloading like dry freight.
We ran 5600 miles per week hauling from Chicago stock yards to Purling Packing in Norfolk,VA made 3 round trips per week=5600 miles per week.

 

[Oddball]

Yes and no. I can't fly. My head won't pressurize, so from the time we hit 1000 feet AGL on takeoff until 3 hours after landing, my head feels like its going to pop. I do like to take 3 weeks off every 4 - 5 years and drive out west to TX, AZ, NM, etc. and see the national parks and just the desert. I feel alive out there. Its like a huge weight lifts off me every time we hit the TX line. Last time was 2 years ago through TX, NM, CO, UT and NV on the way to Reno to see the air races in September. Even made it over to CA and Yosemite. I don't have much desire to travel in the east or north. There's not much up north that we don't have in the south as far as scenery. I don't care for big cities and I don't really care for the beach. I would like to travel up to Minnesota and over into the Dakotas and then on to WY, MT and ID sometime. I only do these long vacations every few years because as much as I love it, the 5000+ miles of driving on top of the sightseeing all in 3 weeks really wears me out and it takes a few years to forget how grueling it can be. My wife has a gasoline a$$ as she puts it, and would be perfectly happy living on the road in a motor home. She doesn't have a job, so she travels to see family and with girlfriends fairly often and I usually take a few days vacation while she's gone just to bum around the house without having honey do lists stuck in my face every time I try to sit down.

 

[Bison]

Did a lot of traveling when I was younger. Been to all lower 48 states and Alaska. Not sorry I did it. Now that I am retired and all the time I want can't do it anymore. Wife can't walk anymore and we both can't seem to get away from the Doctors, prescriptions, and bills anymore. Just can't afford to travel anymore. For entertainment I do a few repairs ( mowers, motorcycles, ATV's and no cars anymore) and spend a lot of time on the computer and take a afternoon nap. I have been told that these are the golden ages but the doctors and drug companys are taking all the gold.

That's the problem with aging....to many can'ts :frown:.
can't see
can't hear
can't pee or poo
can't sleep
can't F...

Gawd i hate getting old
God must hate old folks

 

[JDgreen]

That's the problem with aging....to many can'ts :frown:.
can't see
can't hear
can't pee or poo
can't sleep
can't F...

Gawd i hate getting old
God must hate old folks

But we can still bitch about all the things we can't do...that's gotta be worth something.....:laughing::laughing:

Stop me if you have heard this one before:

An elderly man was walking down the sidewalk and he came across this ten year old boy sitting on a bench, bawling his eyes out. Being concerned, he asked the kid what he was crying for. And the ten year old said, "Just look across the street"....

The old guy says, "All I see is a bunch of teens drinking beer, smoking, leaning against their cars, and flirting with the girls..."

And the kid said, "That's why I'm crying, I can't do what the big boys do..."

So the old gentleman sat down beside the boy and started crying too.....:laughing:

 

[reynoldston]

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The nice thing about this forum from young man high speed toys (motorcycles,snowmobiles, etc.) to slow speed old man toys lawn mowers and yard equipment. Only thing is I just am not ready to give up my motorcycles and ATV's yet still run them daily. My wife keeps telling me I am nuts and going to kill myself.

 

[JDgreen]

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The nice thing about this forum from young man high speed toys (motorcycles,snowmobiles, etc.) to slow speed old man toys lawn mowers and yard equipment. Only thing is I just am not ready to give up my motorcycles and ATV's yet still run them daily. My wife keeps telling me I am nuts and going to kill myself.

Since whan are ATV's just a young guys toy? I am nearly 60 and enjoy this one year around.