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What are some general tips folks have for traveling? Specifically to make it a disconnected, distinct experience from your classic trip. Not necessarily “google local tourist spots” but ways to view a trip and time in a foreign location.
Tinder/Bumble/whatever is popular in the area. You can practically never discover a place better than what a local can show you. You get to make interesting and distinct memories everywhere because you will be able to associate trips or cities with different persons.
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Do you mean the physical act of traveling? That's one of the tradeoffs you make with airplanes: you get to the destination much faster, but time spent at the airports is wasted, as every airport is the same kind of purgatory.
I would sort the modes like this, from the fullest experience to the least full:
your own two feet, bicycle, rowboat/kayak, horse
motorbike, sailboat, motorboat
river ship, general aviation
car (not on interstates/Autobahn), sleeper train, ocean ship
Anything else is suboptimal if you want the journey to mean as much as the destination.
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I'm not sure what you mean by "classic trip." I would assume your typical pop into the area, race around to the various touristy things in that area with little time at each, and then leave.
To get away from that, I try to set out some purpose for going somewhere, e.g., when I traveled to Japan I had prearranged an appointment to have handmade boots fitted and ordered. One way I set this time apart and sort of to "earn" this luxury was for me to bike to the shop which ended up being quite a ways from the city center. Due to the sheer amount of time to myself this took, it morphed into a kind of meditative journey. I've used this kind of pilgrimage in many places to set them apart from the typical business or tourist trip. I'm a big fan of cigars and drinks, so sometimes I'll make a long walk/hike/bike/motorcycle to a special shop or bar or scenery and sit for hours at a scenic spot smoking a favorite cigar and sipping a tallboy. My most memorable traveling experiences were the ones with hardships and I've really come to value them.
Another thing is to rough it a bit and stay at hostels or other cheaper places and talk to the young people scraping by traveling along. They always know the best local places to check out. Since I'm now in my early 30s, this may be weird now, but I'll probably still do it. Besides, it's nice to treat some of those younguns now that I'm not scraping by like they were once.
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