Backpaking lifestyle
an option as a way of life. There’s no year in my life that hasn’t involved travel,
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that doesn’t involve a few countries. Movement and constant change is very much
a part of me and my lifestyle, and I don’t even know in a sense different.
In several cases, extended travel was socially condoned by the participants’ parents for its
perceived educational value, a discourse linking back to the 18th century European Grand
Tour (Loker-Murphy & Pearce, 1995). These participants often further mobilised an emotive
explanation in justifying enduring involvement with travel. This materialised in privileging a
vocabulary of neo-nomadism (see D’Andrea, 2007), in which some participants deeply felt
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