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Originally Posted by CivicBlues
I've been to Japan 3 times. It's like too sterile for me man. It's Asia with training wheels - nothing can go wrong everything is prepackaged and perfect for family consumption. China's big cities and major attractions are starting to look like that unfortunately.
Once Asians start to visit a place en masse it's done.
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For me that's a part of the appeal - I don't want complications or things to go wrong and I don't want language to be too big a barrier especially as I'm travelling with a kid nowadays.
I'll save the more adventurous stuff till she's a teen or when she's out of the house.
On a tangent, I was saying to my wife that now that I'm 50 that it's likely I'll have about 20 years left of healthy living left where big vacations are feasible which probably means only 20-30 trips left (at the top end). That's not a lot of trips when I think of places I want to visit/re-visit:
Japan (3-4 times)
Europe (5-6 times)
South America (1-2 times)
Australia/NZ (2-3 times)
SE Asia/Polynesian (2-3 times)
That doesn't include my bucket list stuff like going to an F1 race or LeMans or seeing other big sporting events