Travel Is The Very Essence of Life

Travel is a billion dollar industry which refuses to lower prices on the basis that millionaires stuff their fat wallets. No progress has been made over the past 10 years on developing a cheaper airline fuel. I'm not sure why it should cost thousands of dollars to spend a few hours in the sky- that's insane. My favorite YouTube channel, Videos for People, covers this subject quite well, with his "The magical Miracle of human Flight, parts one and two:" Keep in mind that these videos are satirical, and not in any way fact based. Still, he does a good job of covering all the bases. Now, what else? Ah, yes. the cheapest airline flight I could find online is $92 dollars. That's crazy. I could just buy a tricycle and ride somewhere for free. Why are airplanes so freaking expensive? I have never been on an airplane because they cost too much. I've been out of my state three times: To Canada as a kid, to Nebraska as a kid, and to Wyoming last year to watch the eclipse. The Canada and Nebraska trips were on a train, and I'm too young to remember them. The Wyoming trip was by car and it was incredibly long and strenuous. Some cities spend all their tax money on things like airports for rich people, when they could be building useful things, like homeless shelters or recreational facilities. The airlines are a way to flaunt wealth. It's ridiculous. I utterly despise airplanes of all kinds. Travel might be fun if you have money. If you don't have money, airplanes suck. And travel might be fun, but I would not call it the very "essence of life". That's an exaggeration. It's just an activity, like swimming or playing tennis. It just costs more and you get to see other places. Couldn't you just read about those places and watch movies and stuff about them? If travel was really the essence of life, then all poor people would be dead, having no essence of life. Poor people are alive, so travel can't be the essence of life. People can function without it. I admit- travel isn't just in airplanes. No matter what, though, it's expensive. Cars are the cheapest, and you have to go through drivers ed to drive a car, and you have to buy one to start with. Cars are a big hassle just like every other form of transportation. Once we devise a cheap, easy to use mode of transportation, travel might be fun. It's not fun right now. Not only do you have to pay for the thing you use to move around, you have to pay for hotels and stuff once you get to where you're going. Even a fricking campground costs, like, twenty dollars a night. Why should campgrounds cost anything? Like, I'm not even talking about COOL campgrounds with a swimming pool or anything. Just a regular campground with one outhouse costs twenty dollars a night. WHY? It's a fricking forest! It's not worth a fifth of a hundred dollars to lay in the dirt for one night! I wouldn't define going to work as travel. I'd call it moving around, sure, but I wouldn't call it travel. It's not fun. It doesn't give you life, it sucks your life away. Backpacking in the Appalachians might be fun. But lounging around in a country club is something that only rich people would do. Everything about travel is fricking messed up and we should fix it.