Word: reservationless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...experience of hardship and inconvenience is largely the point of Journey to Kars. Travel is defined as an accumulation of instances of self-sufficiency. Being dumped into a remote town, at night and reservationless, is a challenge to be savored; cashing a traveler's check in Trabzon takes two banks an entire morning and involves the police. Months on the road lead to some choice distinctions ("It isn't the badness of bad hotels which is distressing, it's the badness of 'good' hotels"). There are also useful tips...
...American Express had taken away his plastic money. "I've been declared a cardless person," he had said then, pouring ashes from his backyard grill on his head. "I'm a man without a card." He had the haunted look of a traveler condemned to shuttle reservationless between Marriott and Holiday Inn, with no Magic Fingers to strum his backbone...
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