Ego Trip?

I view travel experiences the same way I do my movies - a) Story b) Characters c) Setting
For me the moment isn't merely about the location but the people I meet along the way and the story I create in that environment. The characters include fellow travelers and locals but also my own persona in that period. Who was I?

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'Total Recall' (1990)
At 'Rekall', a company that provides memory implants of vacations
BOB McCLANE: What is it that is exactly the same about every single vacation you have ever taken?
DOUGLAS QUAID: I give up.
McCLANE: You! You're the same. No matter where you go, there you are. It's always the same old you. Let me suggest that you take a vacation from yourself. I-I know it sounds wild. It is the latest thing in travel. We call it the Ego Trip.
Watch the clip here - Total Recall: Ego Trip explained

"Choose your own Adventurer"
Its day 350. Wow!
I find myself getting nostalgic already. In just over a month I'll be back on home soil. To be honest, I welcome it but I already find myself reminiscing on my many borrowed realities, my "Ego-Trips".

"The hero with a thousand faces"
I'll miss being a Venezian labourer
I'll miss being an American Vagabond
I'll miss being a Brazilian Erasmus student
I'll miss being a German Artist
I'll miss being a German Sports student
I'll miss being nekkid in the mountains
I'll miss being a "rainy Lithuanian"
I'll miss being a Slovakian Adventurer
I'll miss being a touring English chap
I'll miss being Louis Theroux
I'll miss being upside down on a waterslide
I'll miss being a coffee enthusiast
I'll miss being Anne Frank
I'll miss being the "New Amim"
I'll miss being On a Boat
I'll miss being a Basketball scout
I'll miss being a poet
I'll miss being a scene kid

Other ways to EgoTrip:
- Home Reading: 'Myth of Sisyphus' by Albert Camus - On the Writer, Actor and Traveler
- Louis Theroux, Couchsurfing and Holland

2 comments:

  1. And why can't you do these things once more? :)

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  2. Good question. Its mostly momentary, its an experiment or foray into another lifestyle. I think I'm a chameleon at heart. I'm drawn to documentaries, comedians, wrestlers. I like the idea of personas, write now I' expressing it through travel and documentation through writing and podcasts. Once more indeed...

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