During travel season, I always reflect on how much the experience of travel has changed in the last 20 years. The greatest annoyance 25 years ago was finding the cool stuff. It was so difficult to know what was great and what was trash, and you had to chance it, risk it, ask around and hope for the best. Travel came with a lot of serendipity and some of that included mild disappointment, but often delight, too. A lot of rolling the dice and not knowing. Now the opposite is true— it’s even harder to find serendipity or undiscovered gems. Every hole in the wall has been reviewed ad nauseam. Everything manufactured for reviews and Instagram. It’s fine in that it saves you time. But the discovery part of travel has long past. And those of us old enough to remember the before times might not feel as wild about travel anymore, mainly because it’s not the same.