“Why wouldn’t you escape your real life?” asked Valtchanov. “This way, you can enjoy your own living room and it’s relatively cheap. You can go to Hawaii without the bugs and the jet lag.”
Speaking as a photographer, general tech fan, and traveller: there is a huge difference between an image and an experience. No, you don't get the bugs and jet lag. But you also don't get the humidity pressing on your skin, the salt and brine on the breeze, the sand shifting under your feet, the waves lapping against your ankles. Everything that makes travel worth it has to be experienced in person.
