Ο Kevin Kelly για το πώς να ταξιδεύει κανείς καλά
There are two modes of travel; retreat or engage. People often travel to escape the routines of work, to recharge, relax, reinvigorate, and replenish themselves— R&R. In this mode you travel to remove yourself from your routines, or to get the pampering and attention you don’t ordinarily get, and ideally to do fun things instead of work things. So you travel to where it is easy. This is called a vacation, or R&R.
The other mode is engagement and experience, or E&E. In this mode you travel to discover new things, to have new experiences, to lean into an adventure whose outcome is not certain, to meet otherness. You move to find yourself by encountering pleasures and challenges you don’t encounter at home. This kind of travel is a type of learning, and of the two modes, it is the one I favor in these tips.
O Kevin Kelly, executive editor του Wired όταν ξεκίνησε να εκδίδεται το 1993, γράφει συμβουλές για το πώς να ταξιδεύει κανείς καλά. Είναι ενδιαφέρουσες γιατί είναι παράξενες. Για παράδειγμα:
If you hire a driver, or use a taxi, offer to pay the driver to take you to visit their mother. They will ordinarily jump at the chance. They fulfill their filial duty and you will get easy entry into a local’s home, and a very high chance to taste some home cooking. Mother, driver, and you leave happy. This trick rarely fails.
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Crash a wedding. You are not a nuisance; you are the celebrity guest! The easiest way to do this is to find the local wedding hall where weddings happen on schedule and approach a wedding party with a request to attend. They will usually feel honored. You can offer the newlyweds a small token gift of cash if you want. You will be obliged to dance. Take photos of them; they will take photos of you. It will make your day and theirs. (I’ve crashed a wedding in most of the countries I have visited.)
Δεν είμαι καθόλου σίγουρος ότι όλα αυτά θα πήγαιναν όντως τόσο καλά αν τα δοκίμαζα. Αλλά σε μια εποχή που όλοι ταξιδεύουμε με τον ίδιο τρόπο, τρώμε τα ίδια φαγητά, και βγάζουμε σέλφι στα ίδια μέρη, είναι ένας τρόπος να σκεφτούμε από την αρχή τι ζητάμε από τα ταξίδια μας.