How much of your travel dreams are made up of the ideas promised from advertisements, pages ripped from the travel mags and pinned up for another day?
Recently sat down for a chat with the composer of See Rock City to talk travel and our expectations from trips we take: what we search for, hope to experience, and try to cross off of our list. We all are united in our journeys towards destinations, both real and imagined.
Have your travels always lived up to your expectations? Tell your story below.
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Wonderful images. That shot of the waterfalls from Oluru Australia was a pleasant surprise. Simply wonderful.
Love the brilliant color of the earth behind those falls!
These are some incredible photos!!!
The photographers did a bang up job making them looks like ideal destinations, right?
Sure did! haha Too bad that they probably don’t looks AS nice as these photos. Still, they are nice to look at!
I have not traveled to the many places I have wanted to visit yet, but here is my story about the most memorable for your topic. 🙂
My parents surprised up with a vacation to the Bahamas. This was the first time my siblings and I had ever been outside the U.S. We were ecstatic! Our internet searches of the area advertised pure magic! I was expecting a nice flight, warm sunny beaches, experiences of a lifetime, and a blue tropical ocean. Instead of all that, I got a flight that was delayed for close to 6 hours, rain every day we were there, all of our activities were canceled due t rain and choppy waters, and a grey restless ocean.
This definitely was NOT the vacation advertised all over the place, but it was fun and I’m glad I was able to gather those funny memories.
Lindsay, thanks for sharing your story! Sounds like you found a way to enjoy the destination once you took it for what it was…versus what the ads promised you. Like so many things in life, it’s often best to go in with a blank slate and form your own opinions of a place or experience.
I very much agree!
Those are AMAZING photos!!! I used to want to only get photos of the places I’d been, but now I capture more of the mood than anything. I’m finding that afterwards, even the bad days can be funny. It helps make the bad moment a little easier to bear. Last trip to Disney the hubby had kidney stones. Not a good time for him and kinda bummer for the rest of the family to spend the day without him at Universal. On the other hand, he happily spent time in the jacuzzi with the remote in one hand and a book in the other. So he actually has some pretty happy memories of most of that trip. We decided long ago to make the most out of whatever trip we were on no matter what went wrong. Not easy for me the control freak, but wow what a difference it’s made (for the better!)
Oh no, kidney stones are terrible! At least he was able to relax and you guys got to still enjoy the park. Way to go with that mindset of yours! It’s one that’ll get you far.
I try not to go in with high expectations. Usually that works. I have stayed in some horrible hotel rooms. Most recently, in Copenhagen the shower was just a corner of the bathroom. No glass, to partition…just a curtain and the floor got soaked. however, we had a wonderful view of Tivoli Gardens and the location was perfect. And the floor died quickly. I’m pretty easy going and can laugh things off quickly.
It’s so funny…I was just reading about the “new trend” in bathroom remodeling: open showers.They seem to tout what you (and I would likely also) bemoan.
http://www.elledecor.com/design-decorate/irresistible-open-showers-63867#slide-1
But sounds like the location was ideal! Agree with you about going in with reasonable expectations. Most journeys are what you make them anyway.