Backpaking lifestyle
I didn’t have the same free spirit
there. There’s too many rules, regulations, taxes, laws, everything’s confined. It’s
too constrictive for me now with the way I feel, the way I think, the way I want to
live. I think if you travel long enough, there comes a point in time where you’re
probably going to struggle to reintegrate into western society (Alec, Scottish, 34).
Although this discourse traces clearly back to a MacCannellian (1976) search for authenticity,
what is remarkable is that the value systems of these lifestyle travellers, for whom a sense of
alienation or personal crisis sent some off travelling in the first place, went on to become so
entangled with the myths and ideologies of backpacker subculture that re-integration and
adaptation back into their home societies was made difficult and untenable. Complications of
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