Traveling is a pain, and I used to feel like you do, but I have come around to minimizing it in my mind and appreciation the good parts of travel more.
Two consecutive Octobers I have flown to Missouri to play golf at the Big Cedar courses. Totally worth it. I would fly to California tomorrow if I could play Pebble Beach again.

In 2022 I went to italy, in 2023 to Japan, and in 2024 to Italy again. Yes, the travel was brutal, especially to Japan, but these were experiences that can't be taken away from me, and I am glad that I took the opportunities.

    There were places I wanted to go, but time has passed, and I have little interest anymore. My niece got married down in Atlanta several years ago, my wife and I flew down that morning, came back the next morning. It was enough. Don't really want to go anywhere now. I'd really rather stay home.

    I’m pretty indifferent to travel. I like to travel, but the experience isn’t really worth the cost for me. If I were wealthy I would do quite a bit, but never attained success to that level.

    The “vacation “ we have coming up… I don’t want to leave the dogs. We’re never away from them and now that there are only 2 of them I worry. When I get home I’ll have to work immediately, have the pool to open and the grass will be a foot long. The wedding we’ll have to go to I just found out after we land I have to drive 4 fucking hours😔. As I’ve said before, I wish I was invisible🙄

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    Gotta agree that some places are worth the pain of air travel. We got to see Italy just before COVID hit. 10 days touring the country. I'll never forget it. I'd like to see more of Europe, but am more inclined to take Caribbean cruises.

    P.S. if someone was to treat me to Pebble Beach, I'd ride a bicycle to California.

        sdandrea1 P.S. if someone was to treat me to Pebble Beach, I'd ride a bicycle to California.

        I would probably treat that the same way I treated an invite to play Oakmont - I wouldn't feel comfortable playing the course because I feel I'm not good enough to play it and would be a nervous wreck and afraid I would damage something, like a green. It wouldn't be a good time for me. I would rather just walk around the course and talk about the history of the course with one of the staff and have lunch on the veranda - and that's what we did...

            Depends on where. There’s still some pretty cool places I’d like to see, both here in the states and internationally. But it’s not necessarily a vacation if you’re walking 10 miles a day and bored out of your mind. That’s why it depends on where.

            I find the word “vacation” as a bit of a misnomer.

            sdandrea1 We got to see Italy just before COVID hit. 10 days touring the country.

            I've been to Italy twice, the second time just before Covid and the first time in 2016 when I rented a car for 10 days. Started in Rome and drove over 2000km as far as Pompei to the south and up to Trento in the north near the Austrian border, and numerous cities in between. It was a blast!

              raggmann54 ya know, that's a great idea. I'd love to be able to play some of the historic courses with someone who really knows the history and can tell me about the course, hole by hole as we play. I wouldn't care if it took all day, and we let 10 groups play through. THAT would be a fantastic experience!
              BTW, raggmann, I really doubt that you are able to damage a green to the point that it can't be repaired fairly easily. I say that as I don't believe that you are the type to spin your dirt bike's rear wheel on the green and let the knobby throw dirt, and grass around.
              I've told the guy that runs my little course that I was worried I would screw something up with one of the mowers. His response was, grass grows back, no worries.
              Just be gentle and enjoy the time when you get that kinda offer again.

                Fortunately I was able to see some different places when I was younger, thanks US Army! There are places that I still would have liked to seen, but there are other people there. Not a fan, of people. Wife is borderline agoraphobic, so we rarely travel much at all, which I'm good with.

                  Typhoon It depends. I love the 2 golf trips I usually take each year. I don't travel all that much for work these days which is nice, but I usually hate that as I almost always have flights I have to get up at 3am for and get home 1 am.

                  The wife and I really don't go anywhere because she'd be in a wheelchair 99% of the time. We always go to Boston to visit my oldest and while I love my kid, I absolutely hate driving around Boston. Plus every trip with the wife is dropping her off as close as possible to where we're going and then I drive around looking for a parking spot. We have a handicap placard for car, but I won't use it since she insists on door to door service and I can walk just fine.

                  I'd rather stay home even more than I do now. So much stuff to do around the house and I feel like I just don't have enough time to take care of it all. I'm definitely a homebody person.

                    I wouldn't say I hate it. I enjoy traveling the state and experiencing what is local, as it relates to golf, food, and local brewery or taproom. Sometimes it exceeds expectations. Not a fan of airplanes, airports, and large sums of people....in small doses it's ok! Try to make the best of it!

                    I just returned from Chicago yesterday. Flew there to visit our daughter & some friends. The trip reminded me how much I dislike air travel anymore. It was fairly enjoyable when I first flew commercial 40 some years ago. I’ve been fortunate to have made 2 trips to the UK, so far. We will likely make another trip there in the next few years - though I’m not looking forward to the long flight there.