What are your future travel plans?

HAVE TV, WILL TRAVEL

The title sums up my future travel plans.

In an earlier post on a similar subject, I outlined some of the places my family had visited from the 1970s onward. Our last trip (the first without our children, who were now growing up) was to the UK.

From that point in time onward, The only time I’ve travelled anywhere has been to do with work, study or for medical needs.

Fast forward to 2023, I can say with absolute confidence that I’ve travelled nowhere other than for medical appointments (including a couple of diagnoses taking me to the southern states).

My vision via media of the way airports are always so crowded and dance with people, why my awareness of the fact that planes are constantly delayed. Flights cancelled, and knowing how crammed cabin space is for passengers these days, makes me not want to travel anywhere.

Airports are bustling with security and more crowded than any place on earth, making one feel like a sheep or a goat being drafted here and corralled there.

Once in the air, sitting in an economy seat with ever diminishing amount of legroom in space and it’s ever pressing closeness to the seat in front (usually accommodating someone who wants to put the seat back as far as it can go) makes one feel like a battery hen in a cage. You’re stuck.

When you get to where you’re going, it’s hustle and bustle and haste. It can be so hard to do what you want to do when you get there because other things have cropped up along the way, not the least bit in emergencies of weather and environment.

That’s why these days, when I want to travel, I turn on the television set. Television takes you worldwide in either a factual or a fictional sense. You can revisit history through programs developed to revisit times from years and years ago; You can catch a glimpse of the future through the eyes of those who develop cinematography that stretches beyond our century and into infinity.

I love travelling – in front of my television set