Originally Posted by luciferase75

Oh man you're a dick sometimes. No, I didn't go to school in Louisiana, but I used to live close to it. Houston isn't that far away either. I agree that sometimes travel isn't about being a tourist, but if you got some kids that think red lobster is high-class dining, you think they'll be immersed in the culture when they go overseas? You think they'll go find a little hole in the wall diner to sample local cuisine, or will they go hit up a nightclub and get blitzed and not remember half the trip? What do you think? Knowing the people I grew up with, I know what they'd do, and it's not the ideological government-funded multicultural event you portray it to be.

I'm the stay-at-home kind of guy usually, don't go out much, don't care to. I prefer to examine the behavior of an insect running into a predator over taking in the bustling cityscape of humans I would see if I happened to look up. You have traveled alot, I have traveled little. In fact if I traveled, it would be more to observe the wildlife of the region than to experience the humans contained therein. I enjoy studying plant environments more than I do chatting with people that I barely know. Sometimes I even cut a conversation short so I can get some peace of mind. Fuck it, if you only live once, you might as well enjoy it. I spent most of my weekends in the freakin woods, so I could get away from the howling madness of the orphanage I spent my teenage years in. I got treed by a silent pack of dogs that thought of me as food, and literally covered in banana spiders a few times, but it was still more pleasant than dealing with a bunch of tards squirting God-knows-what out of improvised waterguns (shampoo bottles with a pinhole) and stabbing each other with scissors and pens. I mean that literally.