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A couple of nights ago persis observed that when I write about going to places it's not with a feeling of that I've been there, done that, cross that off the list. Instead it's clear in my posts that I have every intention of going back.

I had a conversation with a guy from San Diego at Iguazu Falls during which I mentioned I was checking things out for next time. "You're coming back here?" he asked. He told me he generally didn't go back to places after he'd visited them.

While there are places I find don't like, I do try to give them a chance later. They just drop farther down the priority list. And when I have bad experiences I try not to repeat them. It's true though that the idea of a "once in a lifetime trip" is alien to me. If I like a place, why wouldn't I plan to go back? Travel is easy nowadays, and getting easier every year.

It does depend on what your motivation for going places is.

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[r-ness.livejournal.com]

But most people have 2-3 weeks of vacation time per year, of which some is often absorbed by visiting family.

Insert rant about American (and Japanese) corporate vacation policy here. I'll spare you.

At that rate, their choices become much more high stakes than yours.

Sure, which also most likely explains why so many of the Americans I saw on vacation in Aruba were cranky. And I get that. But these are still choices.

I do understand the choices I've made are not ones most Americans choose to make, but I do wonder whether how many even consider that they're in the available decision space.

[lillibet.livejournal.com]

I do wonder whether how many even consider that they're in the available decision space.

In my experience, very few.

Just today, in reading an advice column, I watched the author trying to say "you can choose not to have any attendants" and getting a whole lot of "no, I can't" back. Different decision space, but the same sense of entrapment that's frustrating across the board.