Travel is easy now. You don't need to ask locals, you can't get lost, and only a few remote places have anthropologic interest. The author travels for entertainment, it is certainly a time-consuming kind with slow reward's but as time goes by i wonder if travel will simply go out of fashion, as every place looks alike. We have google earth to explore even remote dangerous favelas, (accompanied by police). Tech is making travel a pure exercise in movement, without need or purpose