I’m pretty excited that a B-list UK celebrity like Karl Pilkington would drop by to post on this little message board! Yeah, we know it’s you who wrote the OP. I love your shows.
I know some people dont cope with new and unusual well.
If it was up to me I would happily spend days puttering around the reefs of honda bay, Palawan Island, Phillipines. Tons of the colorful fancy fish you see in aquariums, thousands of them, schooling around you. Sea turtles mozying by, the occasional larger fish or small shark. Its like getting to live in the most beautiful national geographic show ever.
There is nothing else like this that I am aware of within 1,000 miles of my home.
If I had flown straight there…did that for a few days, and went home, I still would have called it a great trip.
IME friendly locals curious about Americans are more than enough to keep you from being lonely or bored. Unless you are very introverted, the average 30 year old has stories of the USA that can entertain a few folks enough that they just might be buying your drinks or dinner.
One thing that hasn’t been pointed out is that when travelling, meeting other travelers from other places can be as much fun as meeting locals. Last May, in London, I met fellow travelers from Dubai and Delhi, staying in the same hotel. The Dubai traveler joined me on a London Walk I mentioned I was taking that day.
Meeting locals is also interesting. I chatted with an rabid hater of the European Union at a Manchester pub. I don’t agree with the decision to leave the EU, but at least I got a glimpse into some of their insight. He worked the overnight shift at a shipping facility and was convinced the EU wanted to regulate the music they were allowed to play at his work.
I think that travel is broadening. Last time I went on a trip, I discovered punctuation, capital letters, and vertical white-space. I felt so enlightened when that happened!
Yeah, I was in a place that had paragraphs. Trippy!