The Difficulties of Choosing a Travel Destination

The Difficulties of Choosing a Travel Destination – Global Introvert

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People used to choose the destination first. But now, for many, the home is the destination. People seem a bit more agnostic about where and when they’re traveling as long as they can find a big place with space to stay with family and friends.

Derek Thompson • The Home Is the Future of Travel

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in a recent “places to visit ” issue of the curation newsletter Perfectly Imperfect, Delia Cai describes an ideal Berlin trip:

I find solo trips to be a delicate art—there is nothing more freeing than setting aside an entire week to wander around aimlessly, anonymously. But you do have to factor in a few hours a day for some inevitable existential mo

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The default state for people on vacation is not necessarily happiness. Anticipating travel is actually more happiness-inducing than the vacation itself. I think this is escapism, where the idea of what you want to achieve by traveling is more exciting that the actual result.

sophiefuji.com • On Dromomania

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As a result, if you’re traveling as a form of vacation, you know you will be back in your box very, very shortly. This tends to provoke the behavior of “experience maximization,” in which you’re running around in a flurry of fatiguing excitement to experience every moment possible in your travels.

Lawrence Yeo • Travel Is No Cure for the Mind

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On Dromomania

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Part of it is the process of getting older, and part of it comes from the experience itself. In my case I realized that much of travel was about being open to different ways of life and changes outside my control. When I found myself getting frustrated, more often than not the problem was my own expectations.

Chris Guillebeau • The Happiness of Pursuit: Find the Quest that will Bring Purpose to Your Life

When the traveler wants a big experience, he goes to a big city to see big things. But when he wants an “ authentic” experience, he must eschew the most well-trodden places, possibly the cities themselves, to find it. He must seek out places that have not yet been touched by “tourism”, he must find the people and places that still have remoteness —... See more

Simon Sarris • Small Spaces

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Overchoice and How to Avoid It

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