Traveling/Going On Vacation

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I like going on holiday. It's all so exciting.

The only thing is I'm put off flying because I fear I might be seated next to a baby or toddler. I know it sounds trivial but it is rather distressing really, especially to a person with AS and ADHD.

This thread was pre-COVID and now we are in a mild pandemic. Last year I went on a 7 day cruise ship tour of Hawaii with my wife. I wasn't too thrilled to go. I would have rather stayed at home. But now because of the lockdown, all I can say out-loud is that I want to go on another cruise. Why! because it will signal life has finally returned back to NORMAL. [It might also do to the fact that I am constantly receiving emails from the cruise lines and they are offering extremely good deals at this time. And I like bargains.] I guess I just enjoy FREEDOM too much.

I love traveling by canoe in remote wilderness areas. My summer trip into Yukon got canceled due to the pandemic.

We are going to try to drive to the SW to paddle parts of the Buffalo River. Not remote, but it is someplace we have never gone. But now, it may not have enough water.

I have found traveling to other countries extremely interesting and educational, as in more data as to how people behave. Once I figured out there was a wide range of accepted human behavior I felt more free to be myself.

I have mixed feelings about travelling. Some of it can be exciting and interesting, some of it can be uncomfortable, stressful and boring. Both the journey itself and the destination can be like that.

Of course, as somebody already said, it's different now because of Covid 19. No more public transport for me while that crap is going on, unless it's really essential, which vacations aren't. Wouldn't do it if they paid me. Special circumstances, living with somebody vulnerable, also not in UK, so no free healthcare and health insurance where I am is prohibitively expensive as well as against my "religion." Country of residence has lost control of the pandemic, and the UK looks like it's about to follow.

It doesn't follow that all travelling and all vacations are off the menu, but I don't trust public toilets at the moment, which limits my range. Outdoor destinations, sparsely populated, means of transport would be private car. Once the weather's cool enough for comfort and to discourage malicious insects, it might be nice to go somewhere. A nice roam in the countryside could be good. But I don't need to, and I only mildly want to. If and when they fix this virus problem with a vaccine or something, I'll probably be travelling again.

Harrison Arkansas doesn't look too friendly so perhaps I might take it off my bucket list

tbh it can be kidna hard to get me tog o but i enjoy it when I Do. I think it's the transition for me.

If I want to travel for pleasure, I won't use a motor. I have seen the world population triple, and our use of power multiply as well. My test for a proposed trip is if my ancestors would have put in the effort for that distance. Some trips, such as visiting the Banff glacier, are now silly anyway.

My ancestors hardly travelled so wouldn't have been great role models

"Cheddar Man" still has close relatives living nearby after thousands of years. Staying is often best.

A farmer was in his 70s when he built himself a new house, a hundred meters from the one he was born in and had lived in until then. His friends asked why, and he'd reply "I guess it's just the gypsy in me."

I found that if I drove out into the countryside to have a picnic, it took me about two hours to slow down and "feel present." If I rode my bike out, I was "there" the whole time.

I enjoy traveling, have vacationed with my family in a few different areas of the USA and went to several countries in Europe as a young child. Seeing new places is always fun, especially when they have natural scenery more impressive than what I’m used to. However, I greatly prefer staying in hotels to people’s houses mainly because I’m kind of a picky eater and would rather not have to worry about whether or not the host will make something I’ll eat at mealtimes.

Honestly, even without the pandemic, I traveled enough in my youth and college years (Hawaii twice AND Florida twice for yearly swimming trips, and that's just college), plus the time I DROVE to Colorado (and back three years later), that I've grown weary of it.

I might consider ONE more cruise with my family after this pandemic is over, but other than that I'll only travel further than a few hours from my house for conventions anymore (the only reliable locations that I know are over one hour but less than four hours away are water parks), and only with significant downtime afterward. Also, no city driving for me - it's hotels and public transport only.

And at my size, I wager I wouldn't fit well anywhere in Europe or Asia.

I love traveling/vacations, especially solo cruises (going by myself). I feel like these cruises bring out my inner NT. Every time I went on a cruise, I met new people, formed social connections as easily as I can read a train schedule, made great impression on them, partied my butt off, and even had women show interest in me (read: I kissed them). I don't know what it is about moving ships, but somehow they do what land vacations simply can never do for me.

In fall of 2019, I was able to squeeze in one last cruise before the Covid scamdemic [sic] hit. (Unless the CDC ceases to exist, cruises may never return, at the rate we're going. ) It was truly a wow-factor cruise! I met a woman who'd have eaten me alive just 10 years prior. (She had sleeve tattoos, dropped F-bombs often, and was rough around the edges in general.) And yet, me and her bonded somehow. She thought I was fun, and talked me up to her friends she went with and the new people she met. I hung out with her group, and even kissed her once.