Goa to Bangkok OVERLAND
Jan 28th, 2010, 08:27 AM
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Oh, thursday... it's a joke. We Australians love self-deprecating humour. The more I talk about my great old age, the less I believe it. This the best time to travel, as you well know. No fear. However, it would be fair to say we are in a distinct minority. Particularly the solo variation.
Truly, I don't meet many of me on the road. Do you? Those I do seem to have tipped over into the dark side, where their travel re-inforces their prejudices, rather than removes them. And when I travel, everybody I meet on the road, as in locals, is a solid three decades younger. Most hover in their twenties. I get asked how old I am in India twenty, thirty, forty times a day.
Additionally, as I've said before, mostly I'm in countries and cultures that have a statistical life-expectancy of about 60 - 65 or less, so forgive me if it seems a preoccupation. It certainly is to them. People sometimes talk to me as if I'm a living, walking miracle; the oldest person they have ever seen doing what I do without the buffer of a five-star hotel, a blustering tour guide, an attitude and a driver. It's impossible to avoid it.
As for wasting our time... well, yes, I think we are. WE enjoy it - but when a first-time poster has made absolutely no effort to do anything other than have an idea, when they can't bothered researching and when they don't involve themselves in the feed-back I do confess to frustration. I've learnt to express it in what I think is humour. This one is too broad, the OP is unlikely to reappear [prove me wrong zach] and only a few share our enthusiasm for the arcane.
I'd like to think that wit and wisdom of posters like Cicerone, Kathy or yourself go into some cyber-data bank, referred to until the end of time - but I doubt it. Everybody thinks their travel plans are unique. Nobody bothers to hit the search button. If they do, there's little indication of it in here. Posts on Bangkok, Rajasthan, Angkor Wat, Luang Prabang and Vietnam, for example, are like cyber-groundhog day. The generosity of regular contributors in here is constantly amazing to me.
But we can agree to disagree on this.
Truly, I don't meet many of me on the road. Do you? Those I do seem to have tipped over into the dark side, where their travel re-inforces their prejudices, rather than removes them. And when I travel, everybody I meet on the road, as in locals, is a solid three decades younger. Most hover in their twenties. I get asked how old I am in India twenty, thirty, forty times a day.
Additionally, as I've said before, mostly I'm in countries and cultures that have a statistical life-expectancy of about 60 - 65 or less, so forgive me if it seems a preoccupation. It certainly is to them. People sometimes talk to me as if I'm a living, walking miracle; the oldest person they have ever seen doing what I do without the buffer of a five-star hotel, a blustering tour guide, an attitude and a driver. It's impossible to avoid it.
As for wasting our time... well, yes, I think we are. WE enjoy it - but when a first-time poster has made absolutely no effort to do anything other than have an idea, when they can't bothered researching and when they don't involve themselves in the feed-back I do confess to frustration. I've learnt to express it in what I think is humour. This one is too broad, the OP is unlikely to reappear [prove me wrong zach] and only a few share our enthusiasm for the arcane.
I'd like to think that wit and wisdom of posters like Cicerone, Kathy or yourself go into some cyber-data bank, referred to until the end of time - but I doubt it. Everybody thinks their travel plans are unique. Nobody bothers to hit the search button. If they do, there's little indication of it in here. Posts on Bangkok, Rajasthan, Angkor Wat, Luang Prabang and Vietnam, for example, are like cyber-groundhog day. The generosity of regular contributors in here is constantly amazing to me.
But we can agree to disagree on this.
Jan 28th, 2010, 08:47 AM
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Well, I still tend to fool myself that I don't look my age - and in countries where women age fast, I really don't. Last trip, the security guard chatting with me in Istanbul airport practically fell over when he found out how old I was (although I suppose he could have been being polite). Women tend to be more sensitive on the subject, since we become invisible in the west past a certain point.
There are women my age out there traveling, but I do tend to meet them in groups (small, budget tours - Intrepid, Explore!) rather than solo. Men are much, much rarer.
There are women my age out there traveling, but I do tend to meet them in groups (small, budget tours - Intrepid, Explore!) rather than solo. Men are much, much rarer.
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