What do you think - Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things - air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it, ultimately wwe are traveling towards that eternity. What is traveling in your opinion?

^It's a bugger when a bad bottle of Singha does your head in like that.

interesting first post.

traveling in my opinion is getting from point A to point B while not being upset if you come across point X.

don't think it is "brutality" in the least.

^It's a bugger when a bad bottle of Singha does your head in like that.

Dropping acid doesn't help either Happy travels on the road to nowhere.

What do you think - Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things - air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it, ultimately wwe are traveling towards that eternity. What is traveling in your opinion?

Travelling sucks... Being There or here is good but somewhere in between is normally mind numbing with the amount of lager i drink

Travelling is the art of getting lost.

Travelling is the art of getting lost.

Oh I get it's quote a famous quote day today. Got it.

Here's mine.

It's not the destination, it's the journey.

Travelling is the art of getting lost.

Oh I get it's quote a famous quote day today. Got it.

Here's mine.

It's not the destination, it's the journey.

Well luggage gets lost all the time.

And whoever wrote it is the journey had never flown jetstar.

Being healthy and travelling by bus/train/hitch-hiking/bike/feet through places unseen before, is freedom, someone,who never did that, cannot imagine.

Travelling gets me to where I want to go. Along the way, I can check out all new sceneries, styles, people, food, cultures, lifestyles and innovations. To me travelling can be an inspiration and you never know who or what you are going to meet up with around the next corner.

If, as you say, we are travelling towards eternity, so be it, however, I would rather travel towards eternal youth. You never know, one day I might find it if I keep travelling!

So if you on day stop travelling, you know what's going on.

OP: Got a way to make this Thailand-related? Otherwise it's Closed-ville ....

Travelling is the art of getting lost.

Especially if a Thai is navigating

You want to go to the market, dear? OK. Which market?

20 kliks out of town, no market in sight and a nice country drive I took her back home and then I went to the pub.

I flew from Chiang Mai to Shannon, Ireland, and back. Five overnights, seven airports. Aer Lingus lost my luggage, again. Thai Air had the best service, food, and flight attendants. There was one evening in BKK at the train station that they sent me to the wrong train - a motosai pilot broke every traffic law in Thailand to get me to Bang Sue with 30 seconds to spare. I hate traveling.

I flew from Chiang Mai to Shannon, Ireland, and back. Five overnights, seven airports. Aer Lingus lost my luggage, again. Thai Air had the best service, food, and flight attendants. There was one evening in BKK at the train station that they sent me to the wrong train - a motosai pilot broke every traffic law in Thailand to get me to Bang Sue with 30 seconds to spare. I hate traveling.

That is using transportation vehicles, not traveling.

We are all travellers.

We are all passengers on the train of life. You may as well enjoy the ride because there is only one departure point.

International travel is a privilege that most of the world will never enjoy.

A traveler's greatest encumbrance is his own culture.

Travel broadens the mind.

If I hadn't travelled, I'd never have seen Thailand, never met my wife, never had a wonderful daughter. Somehow, none of that comes anywhere near 'brutality' in my book.

I flew from Chiang Mai to Shannon, Ireland, and back. Five overnights, seven airports. Aer Lingus lost my luggage, again. Thai Air had the best service, food, and flight attendants. There was one evening in BKK at the train station that they sent me to the wrong train - a motosai pilot broke every traffic law in Thailand to get me to Bang Sue with 30 seconds to spare. I hate traveling.

That is using transportation vehicles, not traveling.

Gosh! That is so deep. So very, very deep. Peace.

What do you think - Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things - air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it, ultimately wwe are traveling towards that eternity. What is traveling in your opinion?

This is weird.

Edited May 28, 200917 yr by sassienie

I flew from Chiang Mai to Shannon, Ireland, and back. Five overnights, seven airports. Aer Lingus lost my luggage, again. Thai Air had the best service, food, and flight attendants. There was one evening in BKK at the train station that they sent me to the wrong train - a motosai pilot broke every traffic law in Thailand to get me to Bang Sue with 30 seconds to spare. I hate traveling.

You may have hated it at the time, but how much enjoyment have you gained from telling the story of that journey (the full version, not the one you posted here).

Well travelled people are invariably more interesting.

I flew from Chiang Mai to Shannon, Ireland, and back. Five overnights, seven airports. Aer Lingus lost my luggage, again. Thai Air had the best service, food, and flight attendants. There was one evening in BKK at the train station that they sent me to the wrong train - a motosai pilot broke every traffic law in Thailand to get me to Bang Sue with 30 seconds to spare. I hate traveling.

That is using transportation vehicles, not traveling.

Gosh! That is so deep. So very, very deep. Peace.

no, actually it's not. It's rubbish nonsense.

I flew from Chiang Mai to Shannon, Ireland, and back. Five overnights, seven airports. Aer Lingus lost my luggage, again. Thai Air had the best service, food, and flight attendants. There was one evening in BKK at the train station that they sent me to the wrong train - a motosai pilot broke every traffic law in Thailand to get me to Bang Sue with 30 seconds to spare. I hate traveling.

I love travelling, and well travelled people are indeed (usually) very interesting.

But, much more interesting, was Sue worth it?

I traveled extensively, 1984-2007. The getting around was the drag. I got reams of great stories to tell; like standing at the 1st class bus station, deciding where to go after Comitan, Chiapas.

I traveled extensively, 1984-2007. The getting around was the drag. I got reams of great stories to tell; like standing at the 1st class bus station, deciding where to go after Comitan, Chiapas.

Chipolatas?

Quis custodiet ipsos custodies?

I fancy diving into one of those vulva-symbol stargates.

Is this T-related?

^ I'll have what he's drinking.

In my own humble, but possibly irrelevant, opinion travelling is people exercising their individual freedom-of-choice about where in-the-world they would like to be !

Just like infants, who will go from fretting, screaming and spluttering little monsters to starry-eyed wonders of cuteness once you place them in the car and drive somewhere, I just love the feeling of being on the move.

What do you think - Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things - air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it, ultimately wwe are traveling towards that eternity. What is traveling in your opinion?

You can always stay home and let eternity come to you.............

I love travel, especially on trains. I admit that the airplance trip from the USA is a bit long, but here in Thailand I enjoy trains and the VIP buses