Pretty much. Now every fucking nigger on this planet has a smartphone.

Early 2000s were golden age of access via flights but there was no social media pollution.

Sorry I was in grade school.

shit fucking sucked without maps or translate what are you talking about you rosy retrospection fool?

>>2866894
>doesn't have a library of Lonely Planet guidebooks

>>2866895
>go to the same place everyone else is getting scammed at and paid off the author's
nah it wasn't good
somewhere like China was amazing experience in the 00's and I enjoyed it but damn it's so much easier now

>>2866894
lack of translator sucks, but exploration without maps is half the fun

>>2866906
until you're lost and drunk in some random city after being plied with drinks by locals and it's 2009 so you buy all this surplus olympics clothes in case you freeze to death in the street and you have no idea to get home so wander for 2 hours until you find a landmark you recognize

>>2866879
The best time is when you're young and you're in love with life for no reason other than knowing your life is still ahead of you. Men are like leaves and each generations sweeps over each other and each think that their time under the sun was the best but in truth we all only have so much time.

>>2866879
the golden age of travel was about 1850-1900

>>2866917
> not being on the Beagle fucking half of Polynesia wearing fancy ye olde British clothes