+276 If you could drop everything and travel the world (with only a backpack and the bare necessities) and learn new concepts, meet new people, and just go on an adventure... you would. Amirite?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I would love to do that right now. Now I'm sad that I can't. :(

by Anonymous 12 years ago

If I could bring a couple people and not just go by myself.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Only if there were Pokémon involved.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Personally, I'd love to have enough time to earn the triple crown of distance hiking.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Maybe later in life, but I have other accomplishments and goals to work toward right now.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

That's cool. I'm glad someone is saying this. I'm not much of a traveler myself. I prefer to settle somewhere and live more "locally" than be a constant tourist. But also, I like that you're reminding people here that "world travel" should not be considered a "higher" goal in our lives, as chronic travelers would all have us believe. Have you ever met a backpacker? Usually they're so damned smarmy and annoying. It's especially annoying when I bump into them in Beijing and they've been here 3 days and are saying "Yeah, I'm really getting the LOCAL experience, really immersing myself in the culture, it's great!" - I answer "Mate, you're sitting in the middle of an expat-filled bar district sipping a long island iced tea with your lonely planet guide out. Where's the local Beijinger in that?!"

by Anonymous 12 years ago

As long as I have money for food, drinks, and a place to stay I would go in a heartbeat. Hell, I'd put a word out to a few online communities I'm in and see if we would meet up. Would be great fun.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

That's my biggest dream, to just travel.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I hope you achieve it! But at the same time, please don't turn into a smarmy annoying smug little backpacking bitch while you're doing it! haha. They are the most irritating people you'll ever have the displeasure of meeting, and will bore you CONSTANTLY with their half-true tales of their travels. Example: "I had a mindblowing experience, island hopping and meditating on the beaches of Southeast Asia" - this means "I got high on beach in Thailand and fell asleep on it"

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Hey now, getting high on an Asian beach sounds damn fun to me. I would leave that story as is haha

by Anonymous 12 years ago

If you tell it as a fun thing, then at least you're being honest about it, but backpackers have this incessant need to find hidden depth and meaning in everything they do so they tell their stupid stories in such a way as to make themselves sound really brooding, deep and philosophical

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Is there a shit ton of money in this backpack?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

This is my goal in life, to save up enough money and head out to see the world

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I feel like I'm the only person who has absolutely no desire to do that.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Maybe not right now, maybe you never have... but one day in the future you MIGHT get the urge to do just this.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I couldn't just leave my dogs.

by Anonymous 12 years ago