Word: wanderlusting
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...Asian Wanderlust Lives! Jamie James' article on concerns about the decline in long-haul travel to Asia as Westerners take holidays closer to home provided an intriguing glimpse into the key problems facing the travel industry today [Aug. 11]. One cannot, however, write off the promising future of long-distance travel to Asia. Of the 21 major Asian-destination countries, 15 experienced increased arrivals in 2002 compared with 2000. It is worth using 2000 as a benchmark, because it was a record year for tourism to and within the Asia-Pacific region, as well as the last year relatively free...
...journey, Stewart discovers that his wanderlust is distinctly un-Mongolian. They are nomads, but their wanderings are circumscribed by traditions that have hardly changed for a millennium. It is Stewart who stands out as a badachir, a lone itinerant always searching for more. The Mongolians, who gave up the world, have long since accepted their fate...
...extended philosophical riff on the act of traveling itself. De Botton's specialty is the metaphysics of everyday life--he is the thinking lad's Nick Hornby--and in The Art of Travel he takes on the how, the why and the what-it-all-means of wanderlust. Mining his own sometimes hapless experiences (watch for a fight of Nietzschean proportions with his girlfriend in a Barbados cafe), De Botton encourages us to savor the small pleasures of traveling: the funny spelling on a Dutch sign, a cypress tree in Provence that's straight out of a Van Gogh painting...
...really nothing more than common swamp fish. In Southeast Asia, where they originate, they live in irrigation ditches and rice paddies, thriving there until the dry season, when their pools shrink and they squirm along to the next pocket of water. Such clumsy locomotion does not lend itself to wanderlust, and snakeheads in a good pond are likely to stay there forever. "Snakeheads are extremely lazy and sedentary," says Hawaii biologist Ron Weidenbach...
...journalist's line of work. Ask the young roomful, instead, whether they would be willing to risk their lives to cover extreme situations in faraway places and report the truth, and the best in the room will get a gleam in their eyes--a little ignition of trench-coat wanderlust, their minds flickering in black and white for a moment, a few frames of '30s movies. Daniel Pearl, I gather, had the gleam. A sheer avidity to know things is the most endearing trait of any journalist. Long ago, the novelist and journalist John Hersey wrote in a sketch...