Just wait four more days, then you don't ever have to ponder about what the point is.

ChatGPT said:
In 2025, the point of travel isn’t just “seeing places” so much as recalibrating your life: stepping outside your algorithms, routines, and familiar pressures long enough to feel what you actually care about—through new landscapes, languages, food, art, and conversations that don’t fit your usual template. It’s a way to build perspective (and humility) in a world that’s louder, more optimized, and more polarized, to collect experiences that change you more than they impress anyone else, and to reconnect—with nature, with other people, or with yourself—by choosing presence over productivity for a while. And if you do it thoughtfully, it can also be a small act of responsibility: spending in ways that support local communities, traveling slower, and letting curiosity replace consumption.

To upload travel photos to social media and have a passive aggressive pissing match with friends and colleagues over who has the more interesting life

>>2851449
To see and experience new places? Same point as ever?

>>2851449
Travel gives me a new perspective on life, that of a lazy comfy NEET who enjoys all the benefits of Third World civilization without having to contribute anything (apart from money).
I like a warm, dry, sunny climate in wintertime. The American West is freezing-ass cold this time of year.
I like eating an enormous array of tasty dishes that I could never cook up myself on my single-burner hotplate and $10/day grocery budget in the USA.
I like going to random map dots and seeing what nice things they've done with their land.
I like the freedom of staying when I want to stay, and moving on when I want to move on. (Yes, I could do these two things even better while traveling and sleeping in a car in America, but the quality of life sucked ass.)
And lastly, I like meeting people, having a good chat, and then never seeing them again.

>>2851449
Troll the locals, get out of dodge before they figure out what to do.