[Ollinson]

One of the things I hate about travelling as "growth" is that you can't refute it unless you've done it.

So as someone who has traveled around the world for many years let me give you permission to never leave home. The truth is wherever you go, there you are. As someone above mentioned, there is a very common cross section of interests regarding humans.

In my own subjective experience I now see travel as the physical equivalent of channel flipping. It's the replacing of any kind of real introspection or work with novelty. Novelty can be very useful but it can also be acquired for a fraction of the thousands of dollars necessary to travel.