When you travel you are just throwing your money away. Why not stay at home, save for retirement or kids college or spend the money to buy a better car or a bigger house. At least these things last or are a wise investment. To spend $2000 + going somewhere new and prancing around for a week or two is just plain stupid. Why do you do that?

I'm so glad I won't be meeting you on the road to someplace exotic and beautiful. That just made my day.

Why bother with traveling when everything foreign you could want is in Epcot in Florida? Or Mexico !(Hey! Check it out!) Troll has the right idea (for USA anyway)

Why fly a kite when you can just pop a pill?

If you don't get it- you never will!

If more people like you DIDN'T travel then everyone else would have wonderful vacations, cause there wouldn't be any tourists complaining about every single thing that isn't to their liking. If you don't consider travel a priority then fine but don't push your opinions on everybody else! Life can be a mundane boring day after day routine without traveling to exotic destinations and meeting new people. Where is the adventure in your life?

Why are you reading a travel site?

I am asking also, what are you doing on this site? And why are you spending money on a computer? Why do you have a car? You don't need a house etc.

Save for retirement? I don't plan to retire. Kids, college (or did you mean "kids' college")? I already went to university & I don't plan to have any kids - there's an overpopulation problem, you know. Better car? I don't have a car at all, or a drivers' license - I take public transportation as it's more environmentally sound, and I can afford my multi-pass as well as travel, thanks. Bigger house? Why would I need one? There's a housing shortage where I live, and there's plenty of space in my apartment. In short, I don't see a need or have a desire for any of the things you mentioned, and find most of them rather foolish and selfish "investments". Any other suggestions?

you truely deserve the proctology award of the month for this crappy post

Because prancing around in a different country is more fun! <BR> <BR>And besides, with conservatives in the White House, who knows how much longer it will be before prancing around becomes illegal in the United States.

For us it's primarily an issue of self-respect. We don't feel comfortable prancing around in our own country where people we know might run into us prancing, so we feel it's worth the money to prance in foreign countries where our prancing might at least be considered by the natives as some traditional dance of OUR own culture.

StCirq, good reply!

I travel because it is the only time my nails grow...I travel because I have run out of my favorite olive oil, and speaking of travelling, my first time to Paris, I travelled all over by foot. There is so much to see in the Bois, walking is how I discovered The Grande Cascade for lunch, and the Pre Catalan for dinner. Then there's that little island there that you take a short trip to have a drink. Ah travel! and of course, you must not forget the zoo, the puppet show, the gardens.

Because I like anything new and strange, like this site. Why post if you don't want a reply, Troll?

What's great about travelling is getting away from boring people like you.

Yea, and tend to you own interests. This site is for tips, ideas, any aid for travel, not a forum for complainers against travel.

I know you are a troll, but still... I read this from someplace: <BR> <BR>"The world is a book and he who stays at home reads only one page."

Bravo! (to the previous reply)

Capo said,<BR><BR>"And besides, with conservatives in the White House, who knows how much longer it will be before prancing around becomes illegal in the United States."<BR><BR><BR>Some of us conservatives are quite happy with a conservative in the WH. And yes you can still prance as far as I'm concerned;~))<BR><BR>US