The deep, dark downsides of travel writing - your guide to the worst things about the best job in the world, by Tom Bohemia

10.7.04

Downside #16

You start to use the word wanderlust

A quick experiment: pick up the nearest travel guide, flick to the front end and read through the author biographies. Then count the numbers who don't use the word wanderlust when describing their exciting lives. Apparently it's not just a mere restless feeling; it's an epidemic of industry-sized proportions, driving whole fleets of previously sensible people to earn their living traipsing around Bhutanese drag bars and Bedouin hotels. If the work itself wasn't quite such an effective cure, we'd probably all still be fumigated at birth.

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