Travel Funnies: The Avant-Garde Traveler
I laughed out loud recently reading the January issue of Outside Traveler Magazine. If you've ever sat in a room with a group of well-traveled people you will understand how, these days, it's tough to have a travel story that tops them all. Travelers stomach? Really old story. Ate bat in a Laotian hut? The guy next to me has caught and eaten the bat. Gotten stuck in the Bolivian desert at dusk without a ride back to town? Someone else has been held hostage and dragged into that desert...
Tim Neville writes about the dying art of impressing others with travel experiences. The travel writer tells his readers "If you keep popping up in the "exotic" settings of my stories and discovering for yourselves how easy it is to come home unscathed, I'm going to have to find real work."
It's true, more and more people are traveling to destinations that were once reserved for only the truly adventurous. When I backpacked through Laos in 1998 I felt like a true pioneer. Especially because the 1 year-old, first edition of the Lonely Planet Laos I was using, was about as useful to me as a pair of high heels. Although I did eat some fire-grilled bat (I think! The LP's 'expressions and language' section was equally useless), the story hardly seems worthy of cocktail party chatter these days.
The real point addressed by the article though, is what is causing this outburst of international courage? Tourism to Latin America for example, which has traditionally been 'one of those places folks generally don't go' because of political instability and all-around danger, is booming!
Is it because we've been threatened on our own turf that we feel it is finally OK to go to places that might be dangerous? Or is it that we've become braver and that political stability in Guatemala or an extremely enticing currency valuation in Argentina is enough to draw us in?
I'm not sure what it is. And although I agree with the author that, in a way, it sucks, at the end of the day it can only be a good thing if people are willing to broaden their perspectives by getting to know other cultures.
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