Travelling ...

I know, my writing pace has slowed down significantly. Like I previously said, I've been way too busy with mundane day-to-day stuff to make anything interesting, meaning that I just don't have that much to say. I'd rather not write completely pointless texts, so I choose to lessen my pace. Now, whether this qualifies as pointless text, that's up to you...


I might have said this before, but it is my firm opinion that travelling sucks.

Sorry, let me rephrase that, it's the travelling, being "on the road", part that sucks. I've never been the kind of person that enjoys the journey itself. However, being there part varies from being a chore to being simply glorious - and everything in between.

That's me in the hammock there, in a small village of Kep in Cambodia, 2007. Getting there involved total of around 40 hours of travelling - but this isn't really being fair since this was extended trip and we stopped in many many locations, before and after this specific point.
 
Longest single trip at that point (during that excursion and from point A to point B) had been about 24 hours. Mostly via planes and airports. Cheap air travel doesn't usually be via quickest possible route. That is the part that sucks - cheapest or not. Be it via planes, trains or automobiles, it all sucks equally. Getting from point A to point B takes often so long time, and while there might be some interesting stops on the way, more than often there is not, or you are now aware of them. Or can't be bothered to stop there. Or are just too tired to.

Recently I took a short business trip; just 14 hours total, just to be in a few meetings with total of maybe two hours. All the rest was travelling around or waiting. Can you guess already why I am not a fan of business travel? But really, sometimes you have to do things that aren't the most fun.

Again, I may be repeating myself from earlier post but maybe 20 years ago I read an opinion piece in a local newspaper, saying that business travel should be taxable benefit. Really, that person travelling for work should be taxed for being able to enjoy benefits of travelling for business.

Listen here, bud. You might want to try that for a while first, your opinion is very likely to change.

But, nevertheless, when everything goes better than expected and you find yourself having an extra day with no work to do (having finished early) - well, that one day might be worth all the trouble.

Assuming, of course, that you aren't in middle of nowhere, with nothing but (unfinished) factory and few personnel barracks around you...