[srean]

I was asking whether your days were (over) packed with scheduled activities. My best ones had very loose to non-existent schedules.

Other than that our experiences are different and that's ok. People are different. It's always a pleasure to meet my past self through those writings (usually emails to friend and family) and photographs I took or were taken by others in the trip.

Agree with you on the part that it is absolutely possible to have a meaningful trip without a life partner.

[nchmy]

i have never traveled with a schedule, even when i was being a "tourist"

also, i probably didnt make this point nearly well enough, but the real point is that travel is completely unnecessary and will absolutely not solve any of your real problems. More likely it will just distract from them, or make them worse. Whatever genuinely beneficial things you and your partner experienced together while travelling could and should be experienced wherever you happen to live.

"travel" is a completely foreign concept to living, that has only become "possible" to most people recently. For millenia, people learned how to live quite well without it.

[srean]

Definitely agree with your point that travel will not solve problems. Wherever you go there you are. However, we disagree in the value of travel.

We are creatures of our surroundings environment and changing the environment definitely helps regulate/alter internal states. Can it be done without the travel, presumably so, but travel makes it easier.

Besides all this stuff about internal state, that's too new agey for my tastes, travels are fantastic for its experiential / dopaminergic value, especially if it's a place that offers beauty.

My brain responds to the sights and sounds in the serenity of mountains in a way that I cannot recreate in constricted crowded settings of clutter. Maybe some people can, I just simply cannot.

Can one live without traveling, of course one can. One can live bed-ridden, paralysed as a born paraplegic. But that was never the question.