Who Loves Adventure Traveling?

I'm always had a passion for travel and even more for journeying off the beaten path where you can see a country up close and personal.

I am writing a report on this at the moment and wanted to ask you a couple questions pertaining to the traits that best describes us as active adventure travelers.

I have listed the questions bellow:


1. What do you love most about traveling?

2. What are the things most important to you?

3. What are your pet peeves when it comes to traveling or other types of traveling?
For ex. traditional travel tours where you spend the majority of the trip sitting in a tour bus.

4. What's the most important things in your life? What do you value the most?

5. Have you been mislead before with false promises and offers as they relate to travel?

6. What are your hobbies and things you enjoy doing?

7. When you go on a travel vacation what makes your trip truly remarkable and memorable?


Thanks a lot everyone for submitting your feedback. This will help me in

1. what i love the most about traveling is making a new experience and i love experiencing the different cultures... i also love spending time showing that americans are great and not all fat hobos
2.the things most important to me are my dad, my friends, my music, and, of course, traveling and different cultures... i think by understanding other cultures better we can become a more peaceful world
3. i hate sitting in buses!! i also dont like when you go to a foreign country and go to a restaurant and they have american food... i dont enjoy that at all.. it ruins the experience for me...
4. the most important things in my life are music, my friends, traveling, and a good relationship with my dad... what i value the most is having fun and just living your life how you want to live it... i try this but i can't get around who i am so i respect it in others
5. no, i havent, though i am only a teen and i wouldnt really know about these because i have only traveled with my family and with a large group before
6. my hobbies are singing, dancing, playing the piano, listening to music, shopping, traveling (of course), going to the movies, chatting and hanging out with friends(almost anywhere), and i actually enjoy learning about history.. i think that helps in my love of traveling, and i also enjoy cooking especially baking
7. what makes my trip truly remarkable is making many memories in a short period of time and making new friends on my journeys, but also having time to relax and take in the surroundings around me and enjoying every moment, no matter how boring or unfascinating it may be

Glad I could help!!

1. I love to actually see places that I have only read about. Especially places that most "tourists" don't go to.

2. See places as they are, not as they may be described by tour operators. Meet people as real people, not as someone who just wants to make money off any "ugly American" who happens along. (I always learn a little of the local language before going, which is truly hard for an adult, but it helps with bonding. I speak only about four words of Chinese, but I was once told in China that "my Chinese is excellent", just because I tried.)

3. My major pet peeve is that most people who travel don't know history, geography, or foreign languages, and come with a lot of prejudices built in. That's why my husband and I travel alone where it is safe and possible to do so, and with adventure tours elsewhere. People who take adventure tours are usually quite a bit more interested in history, geography, foreign cultures, languages, and such.

4. What I value the most is to be kind, generous, patient, and to not harm others. The older I get, the more I believe that this is the best way to make your old age peaceful and calm.

5. No. We are very careful and check everything out.

6. Lots, but here is a partial list: Foreign languages and linguistics; animals; high altitude hiking and camping; sudoku; reading fiction and-non-fiction; finding out things I happen to want to know by searching the internet; being able to help others, especially family members who won't admit to needing help.

7 Being able to put the trip together with things I've read and studied. For example, during our recent trip to Europe, I visited the places related to Hemma of Gurk, an Austrian saint who lived around 1,000 AD, including her grave. For my husband, an expert on W.W. I history, we visited a museum in Austria and one in Slovenia that had wonderful historical pictures.