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In my online travel group, a woman ranted about the disapproving looks she received for saying she shopped at her local flea market but was puzzled when people encouraged her to check out the night and day markets when she visits Thailand. She followed up her rant with the question: Do you have any travel double standards? What are they? She got responses from people, including myself, who either called out others or themselves. If you’re a fellow traveler, see if you can find yourself and your travel buddies in this list of travel double standards.
You avoid public transportation in your hometown, but you will spend up to an hour or more on a public transport to get to a national landmark.
You can walk for hours sightseeing, but you can’t walk for more than five minutes away from your home.
You are the friendly and outgoing visitor while abroad, but you dodge small talk with strangers in your city.
You allow people in other countries to take photos of or with you, but you freak out if someone does it back in the States.
Bugs crawling near you is all apart of the overseas adventure, but you will not stand for it anywhere else.
You schedule street food into your trips, but you won't patron the food cart up the street from your job.
You're too bougie for your local fast food joints, but you can be caught with a combo meal in another country.
You look down on dingy hole-in-the-walls in your neck of the woods, but you are open to them on the other side of the world.
Are any of these double standards yours? If you have more to add to this list, please share them.
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