Comment by srean

Definitely agree with your point that travel will not solve problems. Wherever you go there you are. However, we disagree in the value of travel.

We are creatures of our surroundings environment and changing the environment definitely helps regulate/alter internal states. Can it be done without the travel, presumably so, but travel makes it easier.

Besides all this stuff about internal state, that's too new agey for my tastes, travels are fantastic for its experiential / dopaminergic value, especially if it's a place that offers beauty.

My brain responds to the sights and sounds in the serenity of mountains in a way that I cannot recreate in constricted crowded settings of clutter. Maybe some people can, I just simply cannot.

Can one live without traveling, of course one can. One can live bed-ridden, paralysed as a born paraplegic. But that was never the question.