Please be satire

Look at my post history, take your pick of all my shiny things, with pictures of their condition you can scrape to sell them on ebay!

Well don't leave us hanging! Does their house get robbed every time they're away on vacation and posting about it on social media?

But ehat if you think of a good hashtag while you're hiking

I love taking a motorcycle up to the Radio Quiet Zone in VA and WV. There ain't shit up there and no one can get in touch with me for days.

Just slowly cruising through the mountains and disconnected in a way that I haven't been since before my first work cell phone.

Oh don't worry, you won't have to try to break the wifi.

You bet I would

Same for me. I took multiple trips as a young adult where I just took scenery photos. Twenty years later I really regretted not including myself and family in those photos. Think of yourself in the future and skip sharing them online.

I'm the same when I'm going on a vacation with my parents! I want to have as much memories captured with them as possible... But it's only when I'm with them lol. I usually go to vacations solo, and the pictures without me is still memories to me--even if it's a bad picture and not professional quality, it's still something I saw and experienced myself. Like maybe my sunset picture I took is crooked or too dark etc, but when I see it I remember the moment I was there; it captured exact hue of the sky that I saw, the birds that I was watching earlier, the clouds that I thought looked like a Pokemon and made me smile. The better pictures that other people took do not have that, so for me personally, it's not a wasted effort.

The other day I was looking at my solo vacation pictures from 10, 15 years ago without me in them, and the memories are still with me.

Anyway, I think that although we take them differently, we both agree that vacation pictures should be for our memories, and not for "showing other people that we were REALLY there" (as my cousin said, haha...)

The problem with trying to observe a vacation is the amount of light involved. Experiments have shown that applying the necessary amount of light to render the vacation observable often results in the whole thing being called off anyway.

Two for one you sly devil you! Niiice!

you can not measure the location and the speed of your vacation at the same time with high precision

If you're on the beach do you get Schrödinger's tan?

I'll host my own service, with blackjack and virtual hookers

woosh

They're actually not that unaffordable, I was surprised. Starts at like $600 for single person 3-day, which isn't amazing but is pretty fair as vacation budgets go.

I would certainly hope so...

This is the only way I ever publicly share any information about my travels. Don't want to advertise that there's nobody home.

That's what I always thought. Or thought it was just what we called stat days since I never got vacation until I got into software. Now that I'm around people in a higher income bracket I discovered we get more than 2 or 3 days off?? And folks are going places like far away, for long periods of time.

I still have not adjusted from this middle class culture shock

I love near a metropolitan city, so I feel like the world kind of comes to me. And each passing year my small town becomes more and more diverse, along with my work and friend groups.

Obviously not the same as going somewhere with different history and culture, but I feel like my cup is full. Like, I'm good for pleasures. 👍🏻

Yeah the itinerary thing sounds so awful, especially if it involves traveling from place to place to place. But I guess some people really like it that way...

I like to exist in place for my vacations, but my partner is one of those who need to go elsewhere every now and then. I look forward to her stories, but am thankful I don't have to share in them haha

That's me! But I'm a really slow reader, and have many other interests, so that number would be between 0-1 every time lol.

[•••] and I was thinking to myself that her way is certainly much less expensive

Maybe so, but if you like going elsewhere then maybe it's worth it for you. The main reason I don't travel is because it sounds like the opposite of fun to me, personally.

But I spend plenty on my introvert shit. Like just recently spent almost 100 EUR on these fancy recycled notebooks for my partner and I, because I spend so much of my time writing workbooks, navel gazing diary entries, filling out bespoke agendas rofl; all that stuff.

But that's me and my happy place.

Pedantry: it putter not potter.

Confidently wrong.

Pedantry: it putter not potter.

I thought the same, but they're actually interchangeable depending on where you are, so I interchange them for fun.

I think it's a consequence of the late stage capitalist world. We're way too burned out to have the energy to go on adventures or the money to make it easy to do.

Perhaps at the level of statistics, but I have the opportunity to travel (now, for the first time in my life), but no desire. There's just so much to do locally, you know?

More likely to stake out a quasi-permanent settlement

you can still talk to friends, but not about the vacation

Hmm… interesting. I think I'd still yes, but as I really enjoy talking to friends about things I currently do, rather reluctantly (and not for a very long one).

With your explanation, I can see how you get to that interpretation, although mine would probably different (mainly because I associate post with A: showing it to a larger group simultaniously and B: having a picture or video (but that's just due to my personal media usage)).
I think I might place the line between a small group of friends you tell it and a larger public Discord server(?) as that mostly feels like the difference between privately talking and posting it to a bigger audience, but it's complicated.

it’s more 'would you go on a vacation and just enjoy it, or do you only want to go on vacation so people know you went?' yeah, that makes sense. I see. I mean I would definitely go to a vacation to enjoy it (and not to show it off or something, in fact my last Instagram post is now over a year ago and I don't really use Twitter or other personal social media like that). But not talking about it would still be hard as I basically talk to people every day about what I'm doing, where I'm going, what projects I'm working on, etc. So having to stop sharing that would be different to my usual way how I spend time with people. (But I'd just do it all afterwards, often in vacations I don't have much time anyways to talk to people about it and just catch up later in a longer talk.)