by TigerByte

Created on: September 29, 2007

Most people will tell you that they go on vacation to relax. However, vacations whether good or bad, are always exciting in one way or another. From planning and departure to arrival and the return trip, vacations offer us many things that our mundane lives do not.

Whether it's a weekend in Vegas or a month in Paris, travel and vacations are an adventure. Rather than a boss breathing down your neck, it could be a new lover breathing passionately into your ear. A pick-pocket is still a pick-pocket in any country, but hey - it's more interesting telling your friends it happened in Greece or Turkey.

Quite honestly, we can relax at home in front of the TV, or in the bath with a good book. Isn't the real reason we go on vacation to get away from it all? Does anyone really go on vacation to just sit in front of the TV or lie in the bath and read a good book? Aren't we all looking for change, for excitement?

There can be no doubt that people vacation primarily for excitement. Just buying tickets for a foreign destination is exciting! The heart races, and our heads swim with romantic ideas of what our holiday will be like, who we'll meet and what we'll be doing on that vacation.

Watching a ballet in Russia, skiing in the Alps, tasting wine in France, sampling truffles in Italy, admiring long dead gods in Greece, or standing in awe in front of the pyramids at Giza - it's all as exciting and exhilarating as a splash of cold water in the morning, or the first snow against your cheeks.

No wonder people get back to the office and say, "I'm exhausted from my holiday - I need a break!" Does that sound relaxing to you? Of course not - because it was too exciting! It makes me want to head for the airport and hop on a plane to some exotic destination right now!

The airport lounges, taxis, the sights, sounds and smells of a foreign place all around me. How thrilling! I'm convinced that people go on vacation primarily for the excitement. Relaxing is what we do at home.

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