Why do you travel?

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Everyone travels for a different reason. What's yours?

I realise that the reason to take one trip might be different from the next. So you could also answer this question in two parts: why do you take the trips that you need to take, and why do you travel when you want to?
 
I travel to learn about new places. I probably spend more time reading up on a destination than actually visiting them. For me a vacation is learning about history or culture or nature. It is not about lazing on a beach at a resort in Bournemouth.
 
Now that I've retired all of my travel is recreational. Can't think of a better reason than escaping the MEL cold weather. 🥶
Unfortunately a lot of my travel is in school holidays due to commitments helping out minding grand kids.
 
Ok a very shallow reason.
I love to see places that I have only seen on TV or read about in books.
My father was in the Navy and on occasions would discuss what he had seen overseas.
Perhaps also seeing in real time the differences of X country versus Australia
Also another person who loves to plan her trips
 
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My family permanently moved countries when i was 5 years old, and we kept in close contact with our overseas family, so I think travelling somewhere else in the world was just always part of my life. I love the perspective travelling gives me, both of others and myself, and the beautiful sadness that we're all just people, and we all want the same things in life.

Also, it gives me a reason to work, otherwise I'd be a beach bum living off 2 minute noodles.
 
1) Family connections are overseas
2) Retired, so not on the clock, and not needing to replace body parts yet
3) Kids are already sorted, so not SKI-ing in that regard
4) No grand-kids or fur-kids commitments
5) We both have had the travel bug since our parents infected us in our childhoods
6) World as we know it is rapidly shrinking in accessibility, so would like to create and preserve memories of that what was
7) Can still afford the travel insurance premiums for now...
 
These days I choose to travel either to places I want want to go (solo) or with the family on family trips. I still have to travel for work but I have cut this back from 100+ trips per year to around 10.
 
To play golf in every country in the world that has a golf course…

Also try to see a bit of the foreign city I’m in when there, usually a national or regional museum.

North Korea has a golf course.
Kabul GC might be closed now, so that’s probably a good thing. Much like the little course there used to be in Bamako, Mali. Happy I don’t have to get there. Google maps still shows one in Chad.
 
1) Family connections are overseas
2) Retired, so not on the clock, and not needing to replace body parts yet
3) Kids are already sorted, so not SKI-ing in that regard
4) No grand-kids or fur-kids commitments
5) We both have had the travel bug since our parents infected us in our childhoods
6) World as we know it is rapidly shrinking in accessibility, so would like to create and preserve memories of that what was
7) Can still afford the travel insurance premiums for now...
My parents are now in their late 70s and they are still purchasing insurance on their overseas trips. Is this generally still possible once they hit 80?
 
I take trips I need to visit my parents in NSW (~ 5 times a year), and my extended family in the Lower Yangtse in China (NKG/PVG/HGH, 1-2 times a year). Occasionally I have interstate work trips, maybe 2 a year.

There are too many trips I want to take and I would likely die of old age before I complete them.
 

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