I Think I'd like a home away from home!!

Isn't being at home the best feeling ever? Even a vacation can't replicate that emotion, but being at home we are reminded of all our daily responsibilities. The laundry has to be done and the kitchen has to be cleaned, the dog needs a walk and I have to remember to pay the water bill. I love to be home, but if I could get that same feeling away from home, I'm gone. I think this explains the sudden popularity of summer homes and cabins, a place to get away without really getting away, a space that will focus our sight on magnificent views and scenic drives. These vacations at home fit perfectly into our lives valuing commodity and convenience. Sightseeing can be done in our own countries with the help of a sign to tell us there is something to see. This illustrates how our society is so used to placing frames around things that should be noticed, without them we would just drive on by. We use a frame of reference constantly, from our car windshield to home windows, we consider views very important to our quality of life and society has kept up to speed with placing signs on every natural view we should want to look at. Travelling becomes more about the tourism then the adventure of finding something new on your own. Guided tours tell you exactly where to go and what to look at. It has become so commercialized that I think it has lost some of the mystery and adventure to waking up in a new place and having no idea what you will find. People now want convenience and maybe having a memory of a place is really more important then actually going there but I think we are cheating ourselves out of life if we believe that. We should not be trying to make a world where in we don't go anywhere, we work at home, we vacation at home, the same city, the same thing over and over again, sometimes you just got to get the hell out!!!