Favorite way to travel

**Vuk** · 02-01-2011, 05:09

What is your favorite way to travel? Do you frequent the tourist traps? Take cruises? Does your traveling involve visiting museums? Sampling cuisine? Etc. A combination of many things?

Personally, from my limited experience, I like bumming it. In my opinion, the way to get the best out of being in another country is to simply load up light and hike through the rural areas, stopping at hostels/hotels as you come into urban areas, seeing what they have to offer, and then bumming to the next place.
My travel dreams if I ever have the means is to take a month of from work 4 times in my life, and spend them bumming around the Balkans, then Peru, then the Congo, and then Alaska. I would love to see China, parts of the Amazon, Norway, Siberia, etc., but I am trying to stay at least somewhat in the confines of reality. I will have accomplished my travel dreams if I get to spend a month bumming around those 4 areas.

It is a dangerous way to travel, I know, but in my opinion the only real way to see a country. (of course, this is coming from a guy who has limited traveling experience.) Urban areas only interest me as far as their history is concerned, so I prefer to make better use of my time when I am traveling.

**pevergreen** · 02-01-2011, 05:15

I dont travel.

**InsaneApache** · 02-01-2011, 05:35

I let my ex-wife and her sister carry me around town in a rather splendid sedan chair. It keeps the rain off one. Pip pip.

**Fragony** · 02-01-2011, 08:28

Whatever public transportation the place has to offer, always liked the subways

**naut** · 02-01-2011, 08:35

Travelling light as you say Vuk is often the best way to actually see a country, you get to avoid all the touristy places and really see a country for what it is and enjoy it the way the locals do. The IMHO South of Europe really is the best place for it, from Portugal all the way across the Mediterranean to Turkey.

**Fisherking** · 02-01-2011, 08:40

my horse

**Togakure** · 02-01-2011, 09:12

I like hiking and cycling locally. I've enjoyed a few train excursions regionally, but usually fly if it's a long distance.

When I travel to faraway places, I'm usually drawn to the natural surroundings, not so much the human attractions. I will hike or cycle, go on boat or train rides, or even splurge sometimes and take a trip in a helicopter or small plane. Flying under the Golden Gate bridge in a small helicopter was fun, and the view from above of the City by the Bay, breathtaking. I do enjoy observing architecture, both specific buildings and the general style of a region.

I do very much enjoy sampling local cuisines, even going as far as to inquire of the locals, what places they'd recommend that are representative of the area.

I find museums interesting usually, but haven't made a habit of targeting them on trips. The last time I went to a museum was in NYC, when I met a fellow Orgah there for a day in the Big Apple. We went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and checked out armor and weapons. The samurai accoutrements were particularly cool.

Ultimately, the beauty of the land will always take precedence over human goings-on, but I don't avoid human encounters, I just don't emphasize them.

**Subotan** · 02-01-2011, 09:39

ZEPPELIN

**HoreTore** · 02-01-2011, 11:31

I only travel by unicorn.

**Beirut** · 02-01-2011, 12:23

Feet.

**Ronin** · 02-01-2011, 13:45

Don´t like to travel.

**Vuk** · 02-01-2011, 17:03

WOW! Only a 50% Serious Response Rate (SRR)...that is bad...

Originally Posted by Togakure

I like hiking and cycling locally. I've enjoyed a few train excursions regionally, but usually fly if it's a long distance.

When I travel to faraway places, I'm usually drawn to the natural surroundings, not so much the human attractions. I will hike or cycle, go on boat or train rides, or even splurge sometimes and take a trip in a helicopter or small plane. Flying under the Golden Gate bridge in a small helicopter was fun, and the view from above of the City by the Bay, breathtaking. I do enjoy observing architecture, both specific buildings and the general style of a region.

I do very much enjoy sampling local cuisines, even going as far as to inquire of the locals, what places they'd recommend that are representative of the area.

I find museums interesting usually, but haven't made a habit of targeting them on trips. The last time I went to a museum was in NYC, when I met a fellow Orgah there for a day in the Big Apple. We went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and checked out armor and weapons. The samurai accoutrements were particularly cool.

Ultimately, the beauty of the land will always take precedence over human goings-on, but I don't avoid human encounters, I just don't emphasize them.

I agree, I like the cities, the history in them, etc, but I far prefer to spend my time in rural areas. I prefer the people you meet in rural areas and small villages and towns, and of course you are not speeding by in a train or in a car. You can walk by and observe how people like, stop to observe nature, etc. It is slower, but so much more fulfulling IMHO. Also, I am a ridiculously picky eater, so sampling foriegn cuisine is not my favorite thing to do. I usually like to know everything that goes into my food, and if you do not speak the language, that can be hard to ascertain.

**InsaneApache** · 02-01-2011, 18:04

Originally Posted by Vuk

WOW! Only a 50% Serious Response Rate (SRR)...that is bad...

I was serious.

**Rhyfelwyr** · 02-01-2011, 18:17

Originally Posted by pevergreen

I dont travel.

+1

Although if I did, I would just be lazy and sit in a resort. Unless I have a mid-life crisis and decide I have to 'experience' nature and go hang out with some tribespeople somewhere.