Travel Question of the Month – Vacation Faves
Posted on May 4, 2009
What Makes Your Vacation? – Give us your answer and we will post the results next month.
There are so many fun things about vacations, including food, activities, culture, sight seeing and just kicking back and relaxing. What is your favorite thing to do on a vacation? Click here to give your answer
And now for last month’s results. Last month I asked where you will be traveling this year. Here are the results.
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From a reader:
The question – what is your favorite thing to do? – led to a screen with many activities from which one could choose one’s favorite.
But the possible answers missed my favorite altogether.
It is to discover:
new people and customs
a new sense of history
new tastes
new cultures
new geography – and how it shaped the history that happened
new differences
previously unappreciated similarities
and on and on. It is the discovery that makes the vacation and the travel memorable – not the interminable process of getting to an airport
and on a plane, not the jet lag, not the weight of the luggage.
How does a department store or food market or dug store in Madrid differ from one in New York, or Chicago, and why?
What happened to the Ottoman Turk at Vienna, and why did Islamic leadership in science, medicine, and architecture decline?
Why is the Navajo world view different from mine?
Why is food in Italy or France so wonderfully different from that in
Peoria or Zürich? What was a “fast food” shop in Pompeii like?
Discovery may not be everyone’s favorite – or even mine on every vacation. Sometimes one simply wants to bask, inertly, in comfort,until one’s batteries are recharged. But even if that is the intent, there will come a time when something seems uniquely interesting, and that will lead, again, to discovery.
Sincerely,
David M. Roxe