You'll remember that a lot more fondly than some luxurious suite somewhere. We have to agree with Arthur Frommer, one of the grand-daddies of the travel business when he says that it is unconscionable what the commercial travel operators try to pass off as travel. Travel sections in newspapers that read like they came straight from a resort company's PR firm. Too many people go to foreign countries, and don't speak or interact at all with a single local. Might as well stay home, as far as we can tell.
Travel is nourishment for the soul.
It's pretty good for the mind, too, but mostly for the soul. We travel to see how others live, to gain perspective on ourselves, and how we live. We travel to see how people are everywhere different, yet everywhere the same. In doing this, we see what is elemental in our lives, and what is just an adaption to our local surroundings. We travel to make connections with people with whom we seem to have nothing in common.