Twenty Years of Backpacking: a Life Completely Changed by Travel
by Xiaopeng
About This Novel
In today's era of lack of concentration, being able to persist in one thing for a year, a month, a week or even a day has become a luxury. However, the backpacker Xiaopeng has been traveling for 20 years. No matter how many doubts he faced, he never stopped. In 2001, Xiaopeng started an official backpacking trip from Tianjin with a hard seat to Yangshuo; in 2020, the planned New Year's Eve trip to Ushuaia, the end of the world, was scrapped due to visa issues, so instead he squeezed into the crowds in Times Square in New York waiting for the New Year's countdown. The 20 years since Xiaopeng's backpack has been marked by great changes in the times. We have gone from traveling with work units to group travel to self-guided travel to backpacking, hitchhiking and self-driving travel, from budget travel to luxury travel, from peripheral travel to domestic travel to overseas travel and even around the world. Travel has also gone from niche to trendy to peak to ordinary day-to-day. What has changed is the world, but what remains unchanged is Xiaopeng's determination to just do what he likes. Although this book is called "Twenty Years of Backpacking", it is actually a sequel to "Ten Years of Backpacking". The two books taken together are a complete record of Xiaopeng's twenty-year journey. Like "Ten Years of Backpacking", this book still adopts the chronological structure, AB paragraph format. It not only contains the touching details of the place at that time during the journey, the beauty and evil of human nature, the coldness and warmth of human relationships, but also looks back from today to the past, those assurances from overlooking, the relaxation after walking, the tranquility when looking from a distance, and the sincere and simple words, leaving extremely precious personal footnotes for this era of great changes.
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