Well, OK, if you’re tired of traveling you’re tired of traveling. Why the pissing and moaning about other people who aren’t tired of it? How do they impact you?
See - that’s why I got my pilot’s license. I don’t have to stand in lines, unless I fly across an international border no one is searching through my shit, and I get to be in charge.
I agree - commercial air travel sucks. I used to call it a glorified bus trip but frankly I don’t even think it’s that enjoyable anymore.
International travel does not have to be expensive and I’ve seen it cheaper then staying at home, including airfare, though one could spend more, or a lot more. And that does not include income that one may earn while working at home. I think the OP has fallen into the illusion that the US is the greatest nation on earth and thus foreign travel has nothing to offer. It is eye opening to see what are the strengths and weaknesses of different cultures.
Yes “only” a few thousand, considering that she went to Europe for 2 months and both trips to Australia were 3 months. She did some research, went as part of a tour group to Europe which helped reduce costs (group rates for many things) did the same for the first trip to Australia, and on the second trip couch surfed and toured the country with friends she’d made on the first trip that lived there. What her cost would be today I have no idea.
Think about what it costs to live and just stay in one place every month. Done right, with very little thinking about it and just a little research and planning, might be cheaper than staying put all the time.
you realize that if you’re only away for a few months at a time, that few thousand you have to spend is on top of what you’re spending on your home (rent/house payment)? I’m not going to sell my house just so I can globe trot for a few months.
The OP has so many problems that I’m not sure how to start unwinding it.
But others have made the point that the OP is essentially accusing what might be called escorts for old rich men of excessive consumerism. Oh, and the OP is in es own words “stalking” them.
Given those two things I’m not sure this creates a stable platform for discussing the value of travel.
The biggest obstacle Americans have for travel (not international, just travel) is the lack of time off and general shitty working conditions; it’s not the size of the country. And sometimes, the lack of curiosity, but that’s international: same as I know people who live in Barcelona and have never visited any of its museums, I know people who live in Miami and have never been to its beaches.
And as you yourself point out, there are lots of areas within the US where locations that are very different are a stone’s throw from each other. They happen to be in the same country, sometimes in the same state, but going from one to the other still is traveling.
:smack: I didn’t even realize that was the site when I first read the OP. That does put a different spin on things.
Dude, they are looking for a sugar daddy. They are hoping some rich guy will fly them to exotic locations. They are working high-end consort jobs in addition to those entry-level jobs. That’s how they afford the travel.
And obviously, you would be better served by a young lady who doesn’t want to travel, but lots of wealthy middle-aged people enjoy travel, and travel is usually more fun if you have a companion. I’m sure lots of potential sugar daddies would find it pleasant to have an attractive young woman to hang out with, not just for the sex, but also for dining, strolling the streets, going to shows, and other vacation-y activities. Makes sense for people to talk about what they’d like to do with their sugar partner, so compatible couples can connect.
I don’t know why you would want to go to all those places. What do they have that you can’t find just staying within 250 miles of Titletown?
Well, you certainly can’t brag as much about going 250 miles down the pike.
ETA: Unless you do it by walking or cycling. That’s legit.
It appears that some people consider the pre-crash world of “The Machine Stops” as paradise. How sad.
When my daughter was in the travel industry she sent us a link to a cruise along the coast of South America which was cheaper than staying at home. However it was during the height of the Zika epidemic.
“Want your inheritance early?” we said.
On the other hand her traveling around Europe during her year in college in Germany was very good for future jobs and helped her get a Fulbright to Germany - where she met her husband. Who was in no way an old rich guy.
Shit. I thought that was an obscure enough reference that I wouldn’t be ninja’ed on it. Shows me.
What sexist drivel. Neither of my daughters not any of their friends aspire to this kind of lifestyle at all.
You need to get out more. And trust me - seeing the real thing is way different from seeing it on TV or in the movies or in pictures.
Hostels work. We stayed in a private room in Berlin at a hostel. Next door to the North Korean embassy, but close to Checkpoint Charlie. Turns out it laundered money to North Korea. Oh well.
Traveling for business is nothing like traveling for pleasure, something people who don’t do it don’t understand. For several years in a row I went to meetings in the old Disneyland Hotel - which finished just when the park closed.
I went all over the country when I traveled on business and saw almost nothing. So I understand.
By “modern people”, does the OP mean “90 y.o.Silent Generation member Arthur Frommer”? Because Europe on 5 Dollars a Day was published in 1957…
That depends on what your notion of “pleasure” is. I got bit by the travel bug at age 3, hearing a cousin of my grandmother’s who’d just returned home after spending 6 months in Argentina and 6 in Chile. Her stories of travelling in a bus in which she was the only person whose native language was Spanish, of being told time and again that what she was doing was “too dangerous!” by people who evidently didn’t understand the power of little old ladies used to getting their way, eventually led to my choosing a major which was advertised as having “international projection” and this in turn to a professional life spent traveling here and there, traveling in buses in which I’m the only person whose native language is Spanish…
Drop me at the side of a pool with a drink that’s got a little paper umbrella and magically refills itself any time I take a sip, and I’ll end up killing you or the waiter, whichever I catch first.
Hey, with that address, that’s going for authenticity! Bring your own trenchcoat 
To be fair, then you did not have Twitter. You had to corral your neighbors into your den to show them your slides.
I’m with you. We hate what we call “sun and fun.” When we were in Aruba, we didn’t go to the beach, we bought a $10 bus pass and rode it to where the people lived, including the dry central part of the island.
That is the kind of stuff you can’t do on a business trip, where you are usually stuck in a fancy hotel and pretty much your only free choice is where to have dinner.
Your business trips and mine are very different 
I’ve had customers bring me for lunch to the dumpiest dump in town, on a bet with somebody else that I wouldn’t twitch an eyebrow. The dumpiest dumps in Brazilian jungle towns have nothing on the dumpiest dumps back in my hometown 