Travel Is the Vacation Not the Destination

Travel Is the Vacation Not the Destination

Here is a concept to turn the travel industry partially on its ear

Perhaps to different travel options steer

The focus is now on the destination to the vacation dollars spend

What if the need for human comforts slightly altered that trend?

Flying today is the modern day equivalent of Job’s trials

Even if you somehow are not crammed in a middle seat but in an aisle

Long lines, body scans, belt and shoes off, invasive body probes

Truly a condensed version of the trials of Job

Planes crowded with jammed in human sardines

Any chance of comfort and dignity in the pursuit of profit the airlines demean

When the focus is the destination and the first few days are to recover from the trip

Maybe that far off paradise is a destination one might want to skip

Maybe a better part of the vacation to enjoy

Would be the means to travel to the destination one might employ

A ship if seas must be crossed or a sleeper train if on land

A slower pace with emotions dancing to the tune of a far less stressful band

On a train like the Coast Starlight, the scenery is like the Master on a canvass to change

Ocean surf, rolling hills and even mountain ranges

Better yet is the exponential expansion of human comfort space

And the chance to meet and converse with fellow members of the human race

The extra days in transit and the ambiance therein trump the destination days possibly lost

Reading a book with legs stretched out or gazing at yet another river crossed

While the snow capped mountains with smiles of sun rays looking down

Or the surf seeming to surge forward through the windows then ebb and turn around

Time is money on business on a vacation time at destination means only more to spend

Stressed out getting there and really stressed when the repeat horrors when it ends.

A better way to travel

Can only hope with soaring debt it does not unravel

© January 7, 2017, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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