Where I live (dublin) there's a persistent tourist subculture that photgraphs doors of georgian buildings. I've met several tourists with irish surnames who set out to visit every pub that has their name (hard work if you're a murphy, kavanagh, ryan...). I met a chinese-australian couple doing an "ancestry trail" visitng the ancestral villages of their in-law.
That kind of stuff is ultimately just a frame. A way of exploring, selecting destinations, and allowing the unexpected to happen. The premise itself isn't the point. The premise is a way of facilitating harder to target stuff: meeting people, exploring.
I've heard similar criticisms of photo-takers. They're more concerned with photos than experiences.
These criticisms and accusations of shallowness are shallow themselves, and uncharitable. Collecting countries, places, pubs, doors or whatnot is just a way of deciding what to do next, and allowing experiences to happen themselves.
That kind of stuff is ultimately just a frame. A way of exploring, selecting destinations, and allowing the unexpected to happen. The premise itself isn't the point. The premise is a way of facilitating harder to target stuff: meeting people, exploring.
I've heard similar criticisms of photo-takers. They're more concerned with photos than experiences.
These criticisms and accusations of shallowness are shallow themselves, and uncharitable. Collecting countries, places, pubs, doors or whatnot is just a way of deciding what to do next, and allowing experiences to happen themselves.