The difference between visiting the base of Everest and the summit of Everest is as different as lightning and a lightning bug.
I don't think that's quite true, but nevertheless, I agree they are different (Maybe the difference between a Tesla Coil and a thunderstorm). However they share some commonalities. It was two such things that caffeine seems to be saying are common to both (eg they both involve travelling to other places)
I don't read him as saying a package holiday to the Algarve is the same as white water rafting in some Amazonian tributary, just that they both involve going somewhere else for fun. Neither the amount of fun, nor the depth of the experience were equalized by his words.
I have to say, your reaction to his words kind of work as verification of the truth behind the jest....
I'm sure 'travellers' (not people that live in caravans etc) tend to have more interesting (to me) stories to tell, is that how we're measuring it?
Why do you think that is probably true?
It's difficult to explain why you have certain tastes. I'll give a singular answer to a complex question: Novelty. There is more 'new' in such tales, or at least more differences between stories. While it was a wonderful experience eating at the UFO restaurant in Bratislava, fundamentally telling it would be telling a story about a restaurant meal at a restaurant with a novel location. I think a story about removing a leech or hiking twenty seven miles to a hospital because a friend had developed a fever have more characteristics of appealing narrative.
Edited by Modulous, : No reason given.