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Volume 15In general, when you travel, do you prefer to keep on the move to see as much as possible, or do you like to go slowly and soak things in?
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Margarite Pardue Anderson asks, In general, when you travel, do you prefer to keep on the move to see as much as possible, or do you like to go slowly and soak things in? For example, I would love to just rent someplace and stay for a month (such as a house in the Scottish Hebrides or an apartment in Vienna,) but it is hard to convince myself to spend that much money and then just see one place.
It is a mix. If you move around constantly, you will get burned out. You can keep up that pace for a few weeks, but eventually, you’ll have to slow down.
When I was traveling full-time, I had to do this every so often. I spent a month in Melbourne, Saigon, Honolulu, and other cities just because I got burned out from moving around so much.
Spending an extended amount of time in one place is just a different way of traveling. It is the classic tradeoff between breadth and depth. I would have no problem spending a month in the Hebrides or in Vienna.
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