Moving On Or Going Back
Flickr Photo by striped-socks on 6 Mar 09.
Rolf Potts posed a dilemma today. What do you do when a place really captures your heart and you want to go back? Do you keep going back or keep seeing the world? My initial reaction was, come on people stop going to the same place, see the world. It annoys me when people who go to Florida on vacation every year and love it, but then they hear I’m going to Europe and say nostalgically to me, “I wish I could go to Europe, but I don’t have the time/money/courage.” Maybe take a year off from Florida, save your money and go?
Then I think of Paris. I love Paris and could go back over and over again. Paris is my Disneyland. But even though I am flying into Paris on my next trip I am really only transiting there. No right answer of course, but I’m thinking that you shouldn’t feel guilty about going anywhere you love because its all about the experiences you are adding to your life not some arbitrary definition of what travel should be.
You could tick every country in the world off your list and not have half as good a time as going somewhere you truly love. I’ll try not to judge those people who love Florida so much, except when they tell me they can’t go to Europe because they can’t afford it, but they can afford a week at Disney. That’s just crazy talk.
