Sick Of Being Judged

[Canadian Dude]

I am at the stage in the planning of my next adventure that I have started to tell people that I will be going away in Sept. They are all like, wow, cool, wicked...then they ask where I am going, and I tell them, The Middle East

Common Reactions:
Are you crazy!
Are you nuts!
Do you wanna get shot?
Don't you know we are at war over there (Canadians are in Afganistan not Iraq)
Why do you want to go there? (snoty attitude)
And some coments are down right racist
etc,etc,etc....

I am tired of explaining my reasons for wanting to go to that region, I just want to go, I am not brain washed by CNN, There are good people there, and there is more history than almost anywhere else in the world, the real question should be, "Why do more people not go there?"

It has gotten to the point that I do not bring it up any more, the progress in my planning, I keep to my self, the places I will visit, I keep to myself...I just don't want to be judged anymore, and told by people who no nothing more than what the news tells them why I should not be going there.

Sorry to rant, just in that kinda mood right now....