Historical Travel Advertisments

Air travel:
This picture of the couple flying together with the flight attendant waiting on them is depicting the lavish hard working lifestyle of the two, and the comfort of good hospitality that is provided by the airline. Below is a link to YouTube that will send you to a video that relates health care systems to travel. I found it to be quite funny and I’m sure you will as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J67xJKpB6c

Field of Dreams:
This travel brochure to The Field of Dreams movie cite is appealing to me because of my passion for the game of baseball. The Field of Dreams is an encouraging movie that inspired my love for this game. In the movie deceased players come back to play this historic game on this pristine field in Dyersville, Iowa. This field is depicted as a sacred place in the movie, “A place of fertile soil, traditional values and simple pleasure”. Although this field is not available to the public, in order to keep its imperishable value, I would love and appreciate it more than anything if I could ever have the chance to play on such a field.
The Bahamas Travel:
There is something about the Bahamas that fascinates me. I have never been but I do wish to one day to explore the world and travel to similar places in search of relaxation and the elevation of stress. There is something about the ocean that soothingly allows me to dispose of all my worries and troubles. I believe that the sheer beauty of the Bahamian waters only enhances this feeling and ambition of one day being able to afford this luxurious lifestyle of travel.

The Tourist

The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco is one of the biggest tourist attractions on the west coast. Many tour to San Francisco merely to gaze at the enormous structure that we see commonly throughout our lives. I for one wish to travel to New York as well as many other places in the world in my life time simply because I am interested in different cultures and meeting new people. This fascination with the world around me is a moral feeling that many others, such as ones who visit places such as the Bay Area, share. It is in fact what inspires them to visit new places as well. The massive red towers of the Golden Gate that protrude from the crashing shark infested ocean against the rocks gives a certain feeling that only can be felt daily by the blessed bay area locals. When this image of the bridge is copied onto something such as a postcard, it reminds me of baseball games at AT&T Park and The City’s nightlife with a group of friends. The many tourists that visit, in this case, do not perceive the same atmosphere. However their perception of the city may be entirely different, it is most possibly more enjoyable because of the fact that they are "making the most of the trip". In essence, their senses are in fact stimulated greater by the amazing beauty of the Pacific North West and the Golden Gate. With all that this exciting city has to offer much of its economical growth comes solely from the expensive nights that are lived lavishly and in style. The continuous economical advances in San Francisco and other cities that have heavy tourist involvement benefit over time. With the growing population and the continuous desire to travel with the pursuit of happiness in life, which is in essence the growing moral thought of wanting to travel, the economic status in each town across the U.S. will continue to be supported by the major interest in tourism amongst the nation.

The Loss of the Creature

Peoples’ expectations of their ideal vacation place are fabricated in the mind and a specific picture of beauty and enthralled excitement fill the empty spaces of the perplexed mind to satisfy our desirable thoughts of travel. Prior to arrival to the Vacationland, there is a set image in the mind that keeps our desire to travel growing upon arrival. Once we have arrived, a feeling of slight disappointment percolates through the mind if the imagery we have conjured in our mind does not meet expectations to what is presented before us in reality.
Preconceived notions of a place and the cultures within them are what cause this tarnished view of the personal vacationland. The people surrounding the place and the social exchange make it difficult to see the vacationland in its entirety. In Walker Percy’s article, “The Loss of the Creature”, he goes about explaining the vacationland and how the full assimilation can only be “approached by the stratagems we have mentioned: the Inside Track, the Familiar Revisited, the Accidental Encounter”. Percy believes that in order to obtain this full sense of a place, one must encounter the vacationland through the eyes of one of the three approaches mentioned without the social and preconceived interference.
When I am traveling I do in fact imagine the place in my mind to the fullest extent. For example, when I go camping in a new location I imagine everything in detail. From what the lake will look like as the warm sun shines on the undulated murky water, to the granite mountains surrounding the lake announcing their decorum of beauty of the entirety of the place. Upon arrival I think of how my campsite will appear to me as well as how I would like it to be. As I drive through whatever environment I am venturing into I feel like a voyager who is merely out on a quest in search of relaxation. Once I arrive to the campsite, to my dismay it is not how I appeared it to be. However being and optimist and one who is open to newfangled ideas, I accept this newly found vacationland and rather than suffering from a slight case of neurosis from the entangled vision I once had of this place I on my quest in search of relaxing satisfaction.