{"id":314,"date":"2025-01-31T14:03:54","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T14:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/01\/31\/travel-and-the-indifference-of-places\/"},"modified":"2025-01-31T14:03:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T14:03:54","slug":"travel-and-the-indifference-of-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/01\/31\/travel-and-the-indifference-of-places\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel and the Indifference of Places"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Malcolm Pollack <a href=\"https:\/\/malcolmpollack.com\/2025\/01\/31\/wherever-you-go-there-you-are\/\">writing<\/a> from Ha Long Bay, near Hanoi, Vietnam:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">. . . mainly I\u2019m writing just now to note how little enthusiasm I have for travel these days. I\u2019ve been all over the place in my lengthening life (I\u2019ll be 69 in April), and more and more it seems to me that every place is, well, just some other place, and that gallivanting around is increasingly just exhausting and distracting. The world outside seems increasingly finite in comparison to what can (and should) be explored within \u2014 and once you\u2019ve scratched the youthful itch of restlessness the trick, I think, is just to find someplace you like well enough, and to make yourself at home.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">I could not agree more.&#0160;&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">You may enjoy <a href=\"https:\/\/williamfvallicella.substack.com\/p\/three-reasons-to-stay-home?utm_source=publication-search\">Three Reasons to Stay Home<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Of travel I&#39;ve had my share, man. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ov4epAJRPMw\">I&#39;ve been everywhere<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malcolm Pollack writing from Ha Long Bay, near Hanoi, Vietnam: . . . mainly I\u2019m writing just now to note how little enthusiasm I have for travel these days. I\u2019ve been all over the place in my lengthening life (I\u2019ll be 69 in April), and more and more it seems to me that every place &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/01\/31\/travel-and-the-indifference-of-places\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Travel and the Indifference of Places&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,91,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-travel","category-varia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}