1000 Reasons to Stay Where You Are

... That's the tentative title of my next book. It's in reaction to that title I see screaming from bookstore shelves in airports when I travel on business: 1000 Places to See Before You Die!
--well, not unless you are very wealthy and exceptionally long lived, of course. I calculate that if you start at age 18 and travel until you are 98, you'd need to have twelve vacations a year to fit them all in. Unless of course you engage in whirlwind tours--"If this is Tuesday, this must be Macchu Picchu."

Surely I'm not the only person who finds this kind of notch-on-the-belt travel offensive? What is the purpose of it, other than bragging rights, the accumulation of tchotchkes, the development of a worldview that is best expressed as "I consume the planet because I can!"