I've been reading a lot about people who are traveling via freight carriers, trains, buses, cars, rickshaws, etc...Would you forgo traveling via airplane? Do you consider traveling via airplane travel? I have an idea for a book so I'm gathering information because I'm not sure if I'll actually write the book...Thanks...
Would you forgo traveling via the airplane?
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Richard, seriously? Is there really any question that if you go somewhere by airplane, that isn't really travel?
Any time you leave your home and go somewhere else, by any means whatsoever, that is travel.
Some people prefer what's become trendy to call "slow" travel - walking (hiking), bicycling, road trips, trains, etc. But even if you get somewhere fast, it still counts.
I think when you have a lot of time (maybe you're taking a sabbatical, or are in between jobs, or whatever) and can really enjoy 'slow' travel, that's great because you have more time to experience a place before you move on, but the experience is just as real when you only have a few days or a week - in which case the "getting there" part just needs to be quick so that you can spend what little precious time you have experiencing the "place".
That's just my two cents.
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I like to get from point A to point B in the shortest amount of time possible. I will not give up air travel. That's not to say one day I may choose to travel the world by train, bus, hot air balloon, car, rickshaw, freight carrier, etc...but right now, I'll hop on the plane
Posted 1 year ago # -
Richard, I love the idea of slow travel! I read a lovely account of a journalist who traveled for work in SE Asia for one year after a fortune teller warned him against flying. The book was written by Tiziano Terzani and called A Fortune Teller Told Me: earthbound travels in the Far East. great reading
Posted 1 year ago #
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