Would it be work if it was?
Exactly. It's a means to an end, except so many of us are somehow tricked into making it the actual end. Weird.
Some of my greatest travel experiences involved freezing my ass off in my car or freaking out about whatever was stomping around in the woods beyond the nylon walls of my tent.
Yess! I admit I haven't been so nature-y in a second, but completely relate to this. I loved dingy apartments and discovering random places outside of the "ten museums to see in wherever-the-fuck" guidebook :D
Sometimes a cafe or bar can be the best contemporary cultural museum there is!