With little understanding of what, exactly, a consumer travel show is, we wandered down to the exhibition hall at Seattle Center. It would never occur to me to go to a travel show to plan my next vacation. I don’t want to join a group, hire a travel agent, stock up on brochures, buy a time share, take a cruise… I am beginning to realize that I am in the minority on this.

Even so-called adventure travel is being packaged and bundled in to a neat “purchased for a single price, all meals, transfers from Buenas Aires, skilled and certified guides, airfare from the continental US not included” package. It has never been easier to have an exotic adventure.

Shameless traffic diversion. To avoid duplicated posts, the rest is here on Nerd's Eye View.