8 Reasons Your Global Backpacking Trip is Super Touristy
The “Backpacking Experience” is for squares.
When someone decides to backpack the world, they get it into their head that they want the “backpacker experience”. Take a second to close your eyes and reflect on what that probably looks like.
You’re woken up at 5 am in a crowded hostel and the first thing you do is make sure nothing was stolen. You politely ask the person sleeping two feet away if they could brace your giant backpack while you heave it over your shoulders. Don’t forget the chest strap!
The Italian restaurant you saw on a blog once is only three subway transfers and a bus ride way. But you should get back to your hostel by 2 am so you don’t miss the beer pong tournament.
Now, doesn’t that sound like an absolute nightmare?
The backpacker experience has become touristy. Yeah, I said it. As someone who traveled the world, I’m entitled to a little elitism. Backpackers don’t own $900 Gucci t-shirts. Backpackers don’t have iPhones with microphones and gimbals sticking out at odd angles. Backpackers don’t have travel pillows that self-inflate into air mattresses. Backpackers are regular people who just don’t want to go home.
