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Is traveling really just an empty accumulation of experiences? Are backpackers any different from tourists? Are independent travelers' assumptions about the meaning of travel inherently flawed? Travel writer and editor Sarah Menkedick explores the meaning of modern travel on a trip across Borneo.
- Sales Rank: #193218 in Audible
- Published on: 2015-02-24
- Format: Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Running time: 192 minutes
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Discovering the difference between traveler and tourist
By Rett01
Strangely but with good effect, Sarah Menkedick begins her travel narrative about Borneo with a list of the things she and her travel companion Jorge did not do and decided not to see during their extended stay on the South East Asia island. They did not visit the orangutans. They didn't see and sniff the world's biggest flower and they did not bond with the native headhunters.
They didn't do these things partly because Menkedick had been laid low by pneumonia contracted somewhere in China and was recovering in Kota Knabula, a tourist destination on Borneo's northwest coast.
But the primary reason is that Menkedick is a traveler; not a tourist. Travelers, unlike tourists, are "unforced, unburdened by the saturated layers of importance heaped on places by tourists."
One of Menkedick's most cathartic moments was a travel epiphany that occurred in the aisles of a Hong Kong bookstore when she discovered that there was no "Lonely Planet" guide for Borneo. "I had been liberated from the journey and its sacrosanct demands."
Her Borneo travel narrative is a description of discovery, treks and side trips to places off the beaten path, the adventures and the people she encounters. She visits the places she's drawn to rather than the locations the guide books instruct people to see.
Stumbling through the underbrush, for instance, and coming upon a "hairy, thick-tusked boar weighing several hundred pounds, the most superlatively ugly creatures I'd ever seen." Or heading off on ill-conceived camping weekend to a place unpopulated with humans but infested with all kinds of menacing and bloodthirsty beasts, reptiles and insects.
Her travels are filled with vivid descriptions -- sitting outside at night at the tip of Borneo drinking bottles of Tiger beer and "laughing until the stars started to come out, a few specks here and there and suddenly whole spills of them like the seam of a bag had come undone and shed its gleaming contents across the floor of night."
In addition to being very good with description, she's perceptive with insights. Americans, she observes, don't have much tolerance for things vague, which is why she thinks Americans traveling abroad don't' have the facility for foreign languages other cultures enjoy. "Success in a second language requires a high tolerance of ambiguity, an ability to use words and make sentences without being able to translate them and without knowing precisely what they mean," she says.
Traveling for Menkedick isn't a vacation but a way of life. "I still believe passionately, that travel offers a singular opportunity to escape from the givens of one's culture and identity." For her that escape offers a powerful connection among people everywhere. Exploring Borneo, Menkekick offers a keen exploration of what it means to travel. She makes traveling an adventure as full of insight as it is engaging.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Wandering off The Beaten Track
By Howard
Sarah Menkedick's The Beaten Track would be a must-read even if it were simply the highly entertaining narrative of her and her partner Jorge's long journey from China to Borneo and back. She's a very engaging writer-- with a style that's candid, confiding, and unforced; and a wit and enthusiasm that are evident in her writing and also, apparently, in her adventures. Her sensitivity to people and context, and the poetry and immediacy of her descriptions allow us to journey along with her and Jorge, through each locale and one series of adventures after another. En route they encounter a succession of appealing, amusing, occasionally vacuous and sometimes disconcerting characters, including human--
for example, a helpful Arab with room for another wife...
["When Jorge went out to find a bottle of water, the Arab diplomat tried to take my hand, and proposed marriage. "Thanks very much for your help, but I don't want to live in Shenzen," I said. [He replied,]"But I have a lovely three bedroom apartment, I make a lot of money, I speak perfect English. Does he?" Gesturing towards Jorge, somewhere out in the darkness."]
and not human--
"[The frog] was big and fat, with green and yellow warts and those adorable buggy eyes and its wiry front legs akimbo to give the allusion of harrumphing pensiveness. I picked it up. We were standing in the middle of the road. "We have to save it," I whispered. I could not see in the darkness, but I can be fairly certain Jorge rolled his eyes. "Well, get it out of the road, then." "No, we have to take it back to the water, babe. Down to that brush by the river." A car came. We rushed back to the riverfront side of the street. "C'mon, little ranita," I said, "vamos." I carried it squat in my palm, its throat bulging with gratefulness or distaste. Jorge and I paraded the frog around the edge of the riverfront into the rough grassy scrub, and I let it go. We sat staring at it. It disappeared. I almost cried. "There, the whole night was worth it to save the froggie," I said. "How do you know he wasn't going into town?" Jorge asked."
Along with the entertaining story, though, we get much more. The Beaten Track is not only a string of diverting incidents `on the road' but also provides a coherent, thoughtful critique of the contradictions and paradoxes of travel itself. Menkedick's intelligence and erudition shine through as she develops her analysis. She's at ease with the fine points of the academic literature on travel:
[Travelers, anthropologist Dean MacCannell says, actually reproach tourists not for being tourists but for not being tourists enough. That is, in the traveler purview, tourists are not getting the right experiences or are not getting deeply enough into them. Tourists are either complacent in their outsiderness, ignorant of how to escape it, or -- at worst -- smug within it, unaware in the slightest that it could chafe. Travelers understand their outsiderness as a burdensome shell that must be shed in order to slither into openings in other cultures. But ultimately, I wonder if this prescribed progression from outside to inside, and this sharpening of the vast variegated landscapes of travel into a few crucial points of authentic experience, doesn't simply repeat the processes Americans in particular have practiced from a young age. How to better yourself, how to pull yourself up by your bootstraps, how to get something or get over something: an understanding, an idea, a connection, a sense of uncertainty or confusion. How to make tangible, definable progress.]
This is a remarkable piece of writing, at the same time entertaining and a serious inquiry into the nature of travel and tourism. As the social world becomes a smaller place, deeper understanding of the nature of global economic development and of cross-cultural connections becomes increasingly crucial. The Beaten Track makes an important contribution. I would recommend it to anyone who thinks seriously about these things, or who is just in the mood for a wonderfully-told travel story.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
A different travel experience
By S. Warfield
Traveling, according to Sarah Menkedick, is something that doesn't include a cruise, a fancy and expensive resort area, and the usual tourist spots. For her it's backpacking into places that are off the beaten track and into "the back of beyond." This Kindle short is about the time spent in Borneo with her travel partner, Jorge. Before they got into the longer part of their trek, Sarah came down with pneumonia and had to be hospitalized. She and Jorge teach in China, and took some time off to backpack through Borneo.
Sarah finds a great difference between travelers and tourists. Tourists hit all the traps, the "must see" places and are often concerned with how many miles they've traveled, how many countries they've seen, but the real traveler doesn't do that. She goes where she wants to go, not where she's supposed to go according to the travel guides. Riding in the least expensive part of the train or bus, and the most dangerous part was what Sarah wanted to do, because she wanted to get the experience of how the people traveled and how they lived, not to take the best cab or bus.
I was amazed at how many places in South America Sarah had traveled by herself and had camped in some isolated places alone,also. She met other foreign travelers who were backpacking but she noted that their hair was always just right and they carried the latest light-weight backpacks and other gear. But not Sarah. She has a lot to say about capitalism.
This was a very well-written travel piece, and was very convincing that the frugal backpacking way of travel just might be the best for getting in touch with other cultures and understanding them, as well as the other way around. Sarah Menkedick believes as I do, that if people learned more about each other's cultures and ways of life, the world might be a better place and a more peaceful place. If we don't understand each other, it's harder to accept the differences, but often there are more similarities than differences.
I recommend this short to anyone interested in travel or to armchair travelers.
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