Travelling: stuff you like to experience

[Cataboo]

However in the winter, there's only so many hrs. one's body can be outdoors without getting cold.

That is what good gear is for - to keep warm.

As a nod to my old age, I now will stop during a ski day to get a hot chocolate for 20 mins or so. I never used to be willing or happy to do that, but someone who was skiing with me last year got some frost bite in her toes (despite the fact that we did stop a couple of times to let them warm up.) I used to neurotically plan things so that I got the last chair up the mountain just as the lifts were about to close so I could take the longest/hardest run I could find down. Typically I won't bother driving somewhere afterwards for a nice meal (that does depend on whom I'm with), but if I'm at a remote ski resort, I will be perfectly happy to just stay at the resort.

I guess I've lived near the free smithsonian museums for most of my life - so when I see museums in other countries that I have to pay for, I have no desire to pay to go see a museum. If it's an exhibit that I can't possibly see locally some variation on, I'll do it - but only if I'm very interested in it. That typically won't cover art museums, unless it's more archaelogical old art (greek statues, the elgin marbles, the nike, incan art or egyptian mummy type stuff)...