Fun fact: I've been on a Greek tour with 24 other Americans.

[sinkingfeeling]

Only 2 out of the 24 were 'leaning Trump' types. Everyone else openly bashed the GQP and TSF!
I truly believe that international travel teaches empathy and tolerence.

[unweird]

1. Rick Steves preaches that same theme

Travel makes one more understanding of diversity and others cultures. Big duh, huh?

[surfered]

7. We are big Rick Steves fans. Keep on traveling!

[Arne]

2. Have to be woke to go on a trip.

Enjoy the cuisine and liqueurs.

[Lonestarblue]

3. Sounds like a fun trip. Did you OD on ruins?

I was there a few years ago. It’s a beautiful country.

[leftieNanner]

4. It is beautiful

We were there in 2022. The Acropolis and Delphi were very special. We also took a ferry over to Hydra, an island where there are no cars.

[Ghost of Tom Joad]

5. As Joseph Rosendo says at the end of every show

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow mindedness"--Mark Twain

[sanatanadharma]

6. "My Life in Ruins" a 2009 movie about a mixed-passport Greek bus tour

"My Life in Ruins" (*link to IMBd)
A romantic comedy
I first saw this movie via an online TV streaming in Spanish recently.
Nia Vardalos as the tour guide. Richard Dreyfuss as comic and wise one. Alexis Georgoulis as the bus driver.
The driver gives a great exposition of what it is like to sit, as I have, behind that panoramic bus window seeing the sights.

[Warpy]

8. Found it

with Russian subtitles but it's online.

[LittleGirl]

9. Most conservatives don't have passports

and don't want the government to know where they are or where they are going. There are exceptions to that but most of the people I met abroad, living abroad or staying abroad for a stretch were mostly liberal.