Why do you travel?

Books are great for a few hours mini vacation and you can get an idea of what life is like someplace else but its not the same as actually going. No book can give you the smells and sounds of a place. A book just doesn't involve all your senses. Thats the best part about traveling. All of your senses are involved not just your inmagination. So the next time you read a book about someplace you have been you can then remember all the sights and sounds that you experienced. I travel because I like to see new places and meet new people. i prefer getting off the highways and getting into the bywayswhere the real people live. Not what is just set up for tourist.

travel broaden our horizon. There is nothing that can compare personal experience. Do it before you are too old.

I think the saying is right. But there are certain circumstances that cant be done by only reading the books. Every place has its own uniqueness that only can be enjoyed by seeing or doing it your self. The book may tell about lets say the matador in Spain. Eventhough the book describes it very clearly, I'm sure it will only make you want to watch it yourself even more! Well, one more thing, you cant shop for the unique souvenirs from the book! That's why I prefer travelling to reading the books. Cheers!

I love reading books because with my imagination I can perceive places I have never been, situations I have never lived and people I have never met. But I am limited in the writer's way of view and descriptive capacity. This can not be compared with the experience of traveling. When you travel you meet real people, see images that words cannot describe, get familiar with mentalities, ways of life and characters a book cannot include. Books are words and words are never enough to express the real life.