Taijitu
General Category => General Board => Taijitu Polls => Topic started by: bigbaldben on July 12, 2015, 01:45:04 PM
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Vote, dammit.
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I'm traveling out of state (again) today through Friday, so I'm trying to be positive even though I generally dislike traveling, especially for work. :wine:
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I read an article today about an epidemic of selfie sticks, narcissism, and drones infecting tourists spots and how it's pissing off the local officials.
My other (please specify) is visiting away from those tourist areas which are so infected with those types of tourists. It's unavoidable for some things, but there are so many ruins around europe, that you just have to find a place to stay in their smaller towns and ask locals about any ruins they know about and take a hike there. My favorite experience was hiking up some trail to a local cliff and at the top of it was the decaying ruins of some medieval castle with weeds and other vegetation crawling up it. I find it better not to take a camera on trips, the trip is for you and nobody else. Maybe take 25-50 photos throughout the trip to stir memories later, but not hundreds and hundreds to just share on facebook and be like these people https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=178xvHzPYgY.
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I'm actually away right now to see a relative's wedding. It's in Emerald Lake, BC, Canada, and it's BEAUTIFUL.
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^ the largest epidemic since the vuvuzellas.
One great thing about traveling to a new places that wasn't in the poll:
1st hand learning/experiencing « I tend to talk to locals and figure things out, seeing how real people are living in that place, also it's an awesome way to learn about the place where you're at.
A good example of 1st hand learning/xp:
In Florence my wife really wanted to go into a "handcrafted" perfume shop (which I wasn't very eager to go in), but there was a glass door on the back of the shop for a patio with beautiful architecture, the owner of the shop told me a lot of the buildings on that area at patios where the important families would greet their guests and hold society events, something I've read about the Medici a lot, she also told me that specific house was property of a wealthy Tobacco merchant, even pointing out the coat-of-arms and name.
I also got to slightly experience how the European crisis was affecting the most fragile.
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I read an article today about an epidemic of selfie sticks, narcissism, and drones infecting tourists spots and how it's pissing off the local officials.
My other (please specify) is visiting away from those tourist areas which are so infected with those types of tourists. It's unavoidable for some things, but there are so many ruins around europe, that you just have to find a place to stay in their smaller towns and ask locals about any ruins they know about and take a hike there. My favorite experience was hiking up some trail to a local cliff and at the top of it was the decaying ruins of some medieval castle with weeds and other vegetation crawling up it. I find it better not to take a camera on trips, the trip is for you and nobody else. Maybe take 25-50 photos throughout the trip to stir memories later, but not hundreds and hundreds to just share on facebook and be like these people https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=178xvHzPYgY.
One of the worst parts about people "from away" coming to my state is watching them stand in the middle of the road taking a picture of some piece-of-garbage tourist trap restaurant and blocking everyone from driving by. Then they go home and say they know a "secret little place" in Maine that they like to go to in order to "bump elbows" with the locals, who are usually summer people from Massachusetts.
Then I go and do all the same things anywhere I travel. :P
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I try as hard as I can to act like a not-tourist...
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I try as hard as I can to act like a not-tourist...
counter-productive, good luck with that.