A lot depends upon your approach, your expectations and your state of mind. The single place in this list that I visited is Stonehenge and it was a wonderful experience. Then again, I know both the history and legends of Stonehenge. Also and by great good fortune, the trip there was able to watch the August sunrise and actually walk and touch the stones in a small 30 person group. However, even without that special treatment, I know I would have valued my trip there.
If I were one of the people I see who are wedded to instant gratification through their electronics and expect these places to entertain them, nothing outside the various amusement parks will do. I hope that as these people age, since they are mostly ‘young’, that they too will learn the internal entertainment that comes from experience and learning.
Exactly. One of my favorite movie quotes is from Harrison Ford in "Six Days and Seven Nights." He runs a charter airline in a tropical paradise, but tells someone: "It's an island, babe. If you didn't bring it here, you won't find it here."
” I hope that as these people age, since they are mostly ‘young’, that they too will learn the internal entertainment that comes from experience and learning.”
Yeah, I do not understand some of the yunguns today. My friends kid who is 20 is living in the apartment above my garage is perpetually bored. I have a huge beautiful backyard with a pool, and a fireplace, and a TV in the tree in downtown Reno, and he is happy to spend all day hiding in the apartment playing XBox. If I take him camping or on a road trip he is bored the whole time. I am more than two and a half times his age, and even had my rib cage sawed in half a year ago to replace some blood vessels on my heart, I work too much, travel too much, and in my older age am a little lazy, but despite all that I am 1000 times more active than a 20 year old.