This is awesome! Thanks for the shoutout too! My next instalment (part 4) of the hitchhiking memoir actually talks about this exact thing that you are talking about. I am from Canada, and the big thing for Canadians to do is take a 2 week tropical vacation when it is really cold. I get it. BUT... so many of these people get off the plane, take an expensive shuttle to a resort, and then stay confined in the resort for 2 weeks. They come back and say that wherever they went is awesome... but they really never left Canada. They have no idea what it is like to live there. They did not walk through the slums, or go to a grocery store or a local hangout. They paid money to avoid all of these things. They took Canada to a place with more sunshine, they didn't leave Canada to experience somewhere else.
Thanks!
Exactly! I'm glad you read this because I'm about to tell you that I'm gonna feature you on my post. Yeah, there are many people like that everywhere in the world because that's how we were brainwashed, that travel is only for those who have a lot of money to spare. But unfortunately, you'll see the same type of people here on steemit, and worse, blogging and promoting the same thing those travel agencies promote. Well, to each his own. But the people are just unbelievably falling for their glamorous travels.