I have had enough people telling me about the horrors of travelling to not only become immune to it, but also to realise that in this way Travel is a lot like marriage.
1) Millions of people are doing it every day
2) Everyone has an opinion about it
3) Everyone can tell you a scary story about a horrific incident they once overheard
4) Even people that have done it will tell you not to do it carelessly, yet they are still likely to redo it again themselves
5) It costs a lot of money and preparation
6) It is very stressful and often best enjoyed looking back as posterity
7) Entire agencies are set up to take the hassle and stress away and to help you find the best deals ( all the while taking a hefty hidden markup )
8) Fashion and the media tell you what you should be doing and what you should be wearing while your doing it
9) The cost seems to go up and up each year, getting more and more extravagent
10) A, B & C list celebrities are happy to sell their photos and stories to make money and inflate their feeling of self worth
11) For more people big ones are once in a lifetime experiences, but for the select few they occur quite frequently
The bare fact is that travel is not for everyone, just like marriage is not for everyone, but travel is the kind of thing that you can get a taste for if you like it and thankfully its legal to do it again and again.
I do not begrudge or bemoan anyon who spends £60K on their "special day" if they have it, yet almost everyone seems to think that me spending £20K for an entire years worth of memories is pure insanity.
Some people spend more on a car every year than I will on this trip, and noone calls them lunatics.
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