lol thanks for saying this. "Travel" and "dogs" make up a crazy amount of dating profiles. Like 60% maybe? It's nuts. It's really weird.

then you look at most of their profiles and it's the same handful of tourist photos or them paying to take a photo, basically. travel is just another status symbol thing to a lot of people. they do the same things they see on social media. it's weird. it's just another way of showing how much money you can spend on frivolous* stuff. "30 countries by 30" and stuff like that.

the dog version of it is huskies. every one has a husky in their apartment. there are like 3-4 breeds that every woman in a city/urban area has. so weird.

*not saying travel is frivolous. I'm saying the modern stereotypical version of it is very conforming and repetitive.

the annoying thing is if someone were to ever say, in the real world, that maybe this version of travel isn't worth the damage to the environment, they would most likely get labeled an asshole or something. a "downer" or someone who is a "hater", or they are "ruining the vibe". more and more often "the vibe" is just an excuse to engage in crazy excess consumption that we label as "self care".

lol sorry to go off on this. it's just so weird how we've twisted these things around as a culture/society.