What is it with the focus on slow-travel?

What is it with the focus on slow-travel? I seem to read it as the top comments on all posts where people ask about their vacation. With people like "you should spend a month in this country" or "spend at least two weeks in this city".

So I'm curious if it's just because most people in this subreddit are a bit older and looking for more "convenient" or "relaxing" vacations? Because some of the most popular ways of travelling I know in my young generation, is backpacking in SE Asia, interrail across Europe or roadtrips in America, all types of travel of which the trip in itself instead of the destination is more in focus, and you go from place to place quite fast.

Many people on here might also (please correct me if I'm wrong) travel for work. So they get their "fast-travel" basically done automatically? And I understand this, if this is what you do for a living that you wouldn't want this for vacation. But for people that have a job where they don't leave their city, I get it.

At least, one of the things personally that resonates with me and my travels: it's not the destination, but the journey. This is why I so much enjoy road trips, backpacking and interrail.

And as a side note: I don't understand the bashing for personal goals. People in all sort of hobbies have personal goals that help them push themselves forward; runners for a certain distance, climbers for certain peaks etc. Why can't travellers have personal goals too? If it helps them plan and look forward to destinations and things to see, I don't personally see a problem in it. Yes, some people are intolerable with doing things only for internet clout, but they exist in all interests; I would be just as annoyed with the runners only being able to talk about his N marathons, as I would with the travellers only one-upping each other with the most countries. But assuming people always are like this I feel is unfair, personal goals for personal development and plans are totally fine and totally normal.

Submitted October 17, 2023 at 11:40PM by Duck_Von_Donald https://ift.tt/pARdbPa