What hobbies would you pursue if money was of no concern?
I like the Friday Question #98 for this week: What hobbies would you pursue if money was of no concern?
The first thing I thought was “Does travel count as a hobby“? But since KIm listed travel as hobby I figured it was okay to use…
So I’ll talk about travel as my topic. For me, the most expensive part about traveling is the getting to the destination. I can be pretty happy about staying somewhere cheap and out of the way but it’s getting there. Even when I get to Costa Rica and I can usually pay about $300-ish for my flight it’s still the getting around in country that costs money.
So even when I get to my isolated places and find a cheap place to stay. It’ll cost me more to rent a scooter or 4-wheeler for the day compared to the hotel; heck a bicycle rental is half the price of a hotel. Some other things to do on a trip like a horseback ride of out to an island where you can snorkel is more than the hotel too. As vacations go, these are cheap things to do ($35-$40 a day) but when that’s exceeding your other big costs you start to notice.
I guess if the money was of no concern I might stay at nicer places and in bigger cities but I’m pretty happy in some little town by the water or up in the mountains somewhere.
I guess photography and videography would be another hobby, since I love to do that. The problem is that just ends up with more stuff for me to carry around with me when I travel. And I guess for $5,000-$8,000 I could buy more than everything I need (multiple cameras and lens of different types and two different sized video cameras) and be done with it for more than a few years. Travel is a lot more expensive over the long haul.
I guess I just need a job that lets me travel, write about it and shoot lots of photos and video!!!
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Wouldn’t that be a dream job? You should be the Costa Rica Eye Witness Guide or Fodor’s writer.
And really, it is the airfare. It’s probably 40% of the trip cost, most of the time! Maybe if we start to demand cheaper flights and go for less accommodations on flights (ha, could there be less?) we will have them some day!