Wednesday, January 18, 2023

Travel gets torturous tiring and boring often

Traveling is a lot of the same boring stuff.
All your needs anyway come with you.
The same roads, trees, mountains, buildings, vehicles, vibrations in vehicles, air blowing, heat or cold. 
I don't have much appetite for sights/sounds/smells/winds/fire-level (temperature).
I am not interested in people/cultures, it's the same thing mostly.
They talk the same mundane stuff in just a different language, slightly different clothes.
Food is also mostly not that different.
Living is the business of everyone anyway.
So the same chores and setups will be there everywhere.
Everyone just makes up the same stuff to manage their daily needs.
The same tea shops, dhabas etc.

The sensorium/images just keep moving and moving...when traveling.
It gets really wearisome/tiresome after a bit.
I then just feel like withdrawing into some cozy dark place alone.
In tourist locations, you see the same thing everywhere, everyone taking pictures of things or themselves or of friends/family etc.

Traveling just revolves around the huge list of mundane chores, you just do in an alt-way.
Finding food, shelter, bathrooms, transport constantly - and all the logistics that come with that.
And the need to make 100s of small talk convos for logistics purposes, which I'd so rather avoid completely.
Other travelers you meet otherwise are all busy juggling the same balls of where to go, what to see, what to do today, where to eat, where to sleep, how to get to this place that place....and asking you the same things but historically 'oh where had you been? how did you manage this that?'
Also the pressures of - oh this is closing now, this is the best time for this, you must go here here here etc...
It's gets very boring, mind-deadening/numbing.

I find trekking to be just a pure torture.
That takes all the inconveniences to another level.
For what just to walk a stony up-winding road in nature for 3-4hours?

Even before I speak anything,
I already know the other's position and condition,
If they will relate/agree/or participate in my arguments or not.
Most of the time, I know nobody will agree, and nobody will even understand or tune.
So what is the point of even talking at all?
It will be just boring mundane details and nothing else.
So deeply unfulfilling.

There is nothing that new under the sun.
Every place is mapped out can be seen in aerial view, drone view, regular walker view on youtube/gmaps etc.
So what is the real advantage, seeing it in 3d and 8k res with 140deg FOV?
VR would probably make all that happen at home itself.
Except for the wind and temperature feel, all else can be simulated.

Even the opp-sex I meet in travel is all about fun fun enjoy enjoy....
So hungry for pleasure, which is prolly the hope they projected and came there in the first place.
Like kids in an amusement park for the first time.
So I cannot have even 1 fulfilling convo with anyone.
Same logistics stuff thrown around with excitement.
Feels like I'm a 45 year old stuck in a middle school classroom break time.
Everyone is racing around their checklist, running here there, checking things off, because they only got 2 days there or something.

It is so unfulfilling for the soul overall.
All of it feels empty in retrospect. 
I feel very indifferent and detached, like nothing much happened at all.
Kind of like watching Avatar 2, felt like a long drone shot of it slow moving in a CGI blue world, with some basic AI putting on a filler story.
Like I just stared at the screen and watched a 1 hour long screen saver.

Transport is usually so uncomfortable. It takes it to the next level.
The stuffy AC bus, the super bumpy long bus ride in cramped seat with your backpack, train ride again all the logistics taking care of your stuff etc.
Also coordination of those timings, getting yourself to the station, queuing for tickets etc, waiting till start, and possibility of losing sleep because of odd timings, needing snacks, meals, pee/poo breaks etc.
Mighty inconveniences to endure, if I list all of them, it will make a very long list.

Imagine all of the below accompanying you everywhere all the time:
Tortures:
# Ppl Humming
# Cold, sniffle, cough, sneeze
# Not staying in allotted space
# Cramped uncomf twisted seating
# Loud horns
# Vibration undulations - engine, vehicle wheels, from stony roads
# Spitting constantly/pan spitting
# Cigarette smell, fish smell
# Smog
# Closed windows stuffy
# No ac/heater vents in car, and windows closed now and then when there is too much pollution/dust outside.
# Endless bassy cheesy hindi love songs
# Snoring
# Cold temperature - freezing feels in hands/feet/body.
# Dust in the air from roads/vehicles
# Travel spot discussions
# Bike cramped, accel brake tensions, back burn from bag
# Musty blankets in rooms
# Mosquitoes
# Cheesy cormy pop music song lyrics playing everywhere.
# Food and medicine smells of ppl around.
# Back pain sting of carrying backpack on back
# Mountain scooty additional elevation up down accel brake pain
# No central heating anywhere even when temperatures are sub 10deg C

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