Probably you should ask questions before coming to conclusion?
Are not you afraid to miss anything special?

For a lot of women "love to travel" does not mean: shopping in the great cities of Europe, "never want to spend a weekend at home", etc.

A world is so huge, and there are a lot of women in the world (do not kill me, ladies, for revealing our secrets) who just hate shopping , but like travelling!
There are also a lot of women who spend their money and their vacation for travelling.

But you will never be aware of this and many other interesting things will pass over you, if you will take the world, women, and events only in "black and white".

As for myself, I am interested in a travel/life companion/equal partner who is open and goes w/ the flow and celebrates the differences and who accepts that we each have preferences... but they are just that...preferences. I'm interested in someone who lives in the yes, who is flexible and adapts.

I prefer to get to know someone through communicating and revealing ourselves to one another; to mutually discover and explore who another is, and to be discovered by another. I have no interest in "listing" or in filling out a life resume for many others to disect; I would qualify this as "lazily" "selling" myself to the masses; I am interested in KNOWING who another really is; I'm most willing to invest myself, my time, my energy, my presence and attention in ONE person, and I want the same from another. This to me is a far more emotionally healthy and exciting worthwhile approach. It's also respectful of myself and a potential partner.

As a healthy adult, I need to play and to pursue my passions. Two happen to be travel and poker. I win my entries and travel expenses for two to these tournaments; not easy, yet I embrace and enjoy the challenge, as I need and want to be challenged. I also want a partner who is emotionally supportive and who is independent and free-spirited and who understands that there will be days when I am sitting at a poker table for 10-16 hours a day. It's a whole body experience and requires much presence. I'm not out partying; I eat healthy, exercise, meditate, get enough sleep, practice yoga. Sometimes, I have gone w/ a partner a week early or the week after, for us to mutually explore and discover together...and he needs to pay his own way for that week. I'm responsible for my half; and I'm not just talking finances. I mean I am responsibe for what I bring to a relationship, my half, the only half I can maturely support; I expect the same.

I am also interested and accepting of what he wants to do, his interests, what he enjoys...even as it will be different from me. I don't want boring sameness.

To me, men who use the word sugar daddy, aren't one; they are simply making another assumption w/o any proof.

Unfortunately, a few days before this tourney, my partner at the time, his 14 year old daughter was arrested, hence a photo of my idiot friends of 18 and 23 years to my left, and a fellow poker player to my right. My friends, who live miles apart from me, came through for me.

If my matches assume that the man in my photo is my ex or former SO, I gladly let them. I prefer to ask questions and LISTEN. I want to be intrigued by who another is.

To me, assumptions are false. I prefer to give another the freedom to tell me where he is coming from, what he means, than to assume that somehow I already know who he is. I don't, nor do I assume to, nor would I want to.

I'm glad to discover that b/c I'm wearing a bikini in an exotic location that means I'm a scammer.

Excuse me a second, I have to guide the generalization bus in here to pick everyone up!

People who don't travel are closed minded? I would call that closed minded. I like to travel, but don't get to often. I don't know all the ways to travel cheaply and have never been out of the country. My mom never wanted to leave it as a kid, and in my teenage years I made a lot of mistakes, some of which I am still fixing, that have kept me from having the time and money. I don't see how that makes me closed minded. I read a lot of history and other reference material on my own time. I know about other cultures even if I haven't gotten to experience them. And what about people who are afraid of flying? are they closed minded too because they don't travel? Total bull...

I was on the side of people traveling but now I am starting to think traveling makes one pretentious. But that would be a generalization so I'll get on my own bus.

This thread was horridly presumptuous when it started and it just became more of a string of insulting comments against everyone. Travel and the desire to do it or lack thereof, no matter if you are male or female, does not make one a gold-digger or a closed minded automaton. Maybe the reason so many of us need advice boards is because we jump to conclusions about people, make assumptions about people's and group's character, and/or are sometimes just extremely rude (like me here.)