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ML: Money Well Spent On Travel

Posted by DFO

May 20, 2009 1:57 p.m. • 7 comments

I love to travel. I love the memories, and whenever I travel, I figure the money spent is one of the best investments of life. Yes, it’s expensive at the time, but traveling is truly the gift that keeps on giving until the day we die. I cannot remember a trip I’ve ever taken that has failed to provide me vivid images and recollections that I can tap at a moment’s notice. Some of those trips go back more than 50 years. All the Sunday drives to Montana, sitting on the hump in the back seat between two brothers, the occasional hand-outs from the box of bacon thins held by the front-seat guard–and the outdoor potty stops in the wet grass–those were great times. Well, at least they seem to be now as I think back on them/Marianne Love, Slight Detour. More here.

Question: Do you travel much? Where? How has traveling affected your life?

Seven comments on this post so far. Add yours!

Liz on May 20 at 4:09 p.m.
I spent a lot of my youth driving around the country, moving a lot etc etc etc.
We have to go to Boston and St. Louis every summer to visit relatives. Hubby likes to truck on over to Portland and Seattle every chance we get.
All this is to say that my idea of a great vacay is driving an hour or so and pitching a tent.
Sad but true….
Me on May 20 at 6:35 p.m.
I LOVE to travel - anywhere anytime. I wish I had money to just travel. I love everything about it. I love planning trips, I love packing for them I love saving up the money for them. I love hotels, houses B&Bs I love seeing sights or not. I love going to a beach, or being on a boat or going somewhere in Montana for just 1 night.

I love going for business, or for a vacation. By myself, with my husband or with a group of friends - or co-workers.

sighhhhh… I wish I were on a trip right now.
Stickman on May 20 at 9:28 p.m.
I am like ME: I have traveled my whole life, and enjoyed every moment. I don’t these days because I have no money. I have been to every state of this great country of ours at least once, and to most countries of this world, even the ones outlawed to this day. Like Iran, and many others. I am content to stay home these days, and make walking sticks to give away. It’s a simple life, but one I have grown to enjoy, immensely. I guess I will do this for the rest of my life, as long as I can afford it.
brentandrews on May 21 at 9:43 a.m.
I am trying to catch up with Stickman. Love to travel.
brentandrews on May 21 at 9:45 a.m.
sighhhhh… I wish I were on a trip right now.

I’ll join that club.
Me on May 21 at 1:14 p.m.
Expanding a bit on what Marianne said - the memories and the recollections. The stuff that ends up sticking with you from trips is usually not what you think will when you are ‘in it’. Sometimes when you are in the middle of it all and you are worrying about if you packed something or left something in the restaurant you were just in, or you have a headache or the sun is in your eyes - you don’t remember ANY of that later, but will remember tiny details that you weren’t even aware of.

I just posted our Europe trip on my blog recently - it had been a year since the trip and I needed to do it. What fun that was - I relived it ALL. This age of digital cameras is a godsend too.
Stickman on May 21 at 10:08 p.m.
There are places in this world that are truly amazing, maybe some day you will visit them. Like Paestum in Italy, or Petra in Jordan. Of course there are many places in our own country to visit and enjoy, but the outside world can also be truly something to see. If you get the chance in the future and have a little money, go see the places that most never get a chance to see. I have, and will never forget them.

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