birdgilr, im 20, if i dont have an interest in that crap now i probably never will, it bores me, i do veiw myself as an intellectual, but im a computer nerd and as such am not into all the artsy fartsyness around me, for me to see a picture of the mona lisa is just as good as seeing it in person, i really wouldnt be able to tell the difference, so going to europe to see whatever cathedrals and other sites just wont do it for me at all, so im not gonna try, it will be a waste of time and effort for me, in europe you see so many lemming tourists who ooh and ahh at every single site they see and have no real understanding of what they are doing, the see a cathedral and they think, painting pretty, place old ahhhh pretty....... im not going to be one of those, nor will i be one of those people who truly appreciates those things...... so yeah..... that sums up my point.......