You really need to understand that there is a fundamental difference between "vacation" and "travel". A vacation is seen by many as time off from their jobs or school, etc. and to wind down from the stress of life. Travel, on the other hand is for its own sake. Americans are so provincial and backwards regarding travel; that's what's unbelievable here. I almost never go to a place I've been before. Why would I? I've already been there and done that. The world is 25,000 miles in diameter and has too much area for anyone to see and experience in an entire lifetime, but I've been trying since I took my first flight back in 1955 at two years old.
I also attend some of those "once in a lifetime" events. I was in Moscow for the 1980 Olympics, the year the US boycotted them over Afghanistan (Now we're there, what a laugh!). I flew to Berlin in 1989 when the Wall came down to join in the revelry. I was in Hong Kong on July 1st, 1997, when the red army marched in and took possession back from Prince Charles. I celebrated the millennium new year's eve on Fiji, then jumped aboard a flight to Rarotonga, landing at 2:pm on December 31st (crossing the International dateline) and celebrated it again at midnite there.
I've been to Machu Picchu, I've snow skied and been in a sleet storm on the volcanic top of Hawaii's main island. I've sat in the Mayan throne at and climbed to the top of the Mayan pyramid at Uxmal. I've been on photo safaris in Africa. I've been SCUBA diving in five of the seven seas. and on and on and on. This planet and many of its people, plants and animals are miraculous to see and share experiences with.
I ask again, "Why would anyone want to go to the same place twice"?

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