Comments on: Budget Travelers Are Hippie Scum

By: bkachaksb

bkachaksb — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 10:34:24 +0000

Haha, nice one…. hippie digging for marijuana

By: Pia

Pia — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 04:33:49 +0000

Haha this is ridiculously funny!
I’d have to say by your definition i’m a scummy hipy then…
This was funny though :p! And so is the person OverlandSi’s comment.

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By: appleseed024

appleseed024 — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:41:59 +0000

hahaha….they "fart in church"… that really made me laugh

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By: OverlandSi

OverlandSi — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:46:40 +0000

Oh crap – I quit my job, so I could travel more – I feel that foreign policy is important, I haven't had a haircut in months and I love my Brikenstocks. When did this happen to me, why? I used to be so respectable, with suits and shoes with laces in them!!

I never noticed it, but now I am a true hippy – here to thwart your world mwahaha! (Haven't made the step to any religion yet but somebody commented on my blog that my views were Buddhist, oh bollocks. I'm already fully there)

I shall now leave my pc and go and dance round the maypole.

Goodbye cruel commercial world

Overland Si
OverlandWannabe

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By: Chad Barnes

Chad Barnes — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:30:08 +0000

dear F. Daniel,

take it from a good friend of mine, a one Julian Noble, who is not only a devout Christian but also an exceptionally proud farter: if you're going to pass gas in church, make damn sure the pew is wooden and push with all your might.

this friend is currently "backpacking" in south america, not surprising when a good reader considers spanish conquests, the subsequent building of catholic god houses, and the excellent acoustics with which they are constructed. he has a mustache, long greasy hair, and wears Salomon trail runners almost daily. he seems the perfect candidate, an assumption i'm sure you would agree with. however, are you sure you're naming discussed degenerates correctly? could they in fact be the hippies younger, evil twin…The Hipsters?

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By: Chad Barnes

Chad Barnes — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:14:18 +0000

Please pardon tardiness – just joined Matador.

"I belong to the Children of the Sixties and very proud of that because we had ideals, something that most people today will not understand."

Sorry, but wasn't it a LACK of ideals that in the end sank the hippie movement? The fact that most of said individuals, at least the ones who came later on, had little aspiration and were simply looking to get their hands on some Owsley acid. Flocking to Haight-Ashbury in numbers desperately wanting to wear Day-Glo paint and write Beautiful People Letters, emulating a lifestyle rather than a mentality.

What's harder to understand, an ideal itself, or that people can have them?

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By: deb

deb — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:42:26 +0000

i think that's the point.

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By: Bookling

Bookling — Fri, 30 May 2008 06:39:46 +0000

HILARIOUS!!! I love this. It’s a satire of Ann Coulter conservative screed-style writing but could just as easily be a satire of budget travelers who complain about richer tourists mucking everything up. (While I might agree with that sentiment, I’ve also heard that story a million times…) Really, this article pokes fun at any person blaming a group of Others for their problems… As Frank Zappa’s band once sang, “We are the other people. You’re the other people, too.” Loved the article. A+!!

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By: Mary Jane

Mary Jane — Wed, 28 May 2008 19:13:32 +0000

This was absolutely hysterical. BRILLIANTLY written
Fucking made my day

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By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 02 May 2008 02:42:38 +0000

Yes, I agree. I belong to the Children of the Sixties and very proud of that because we had ideals, something that most people today will not understand. We thought we could change the world, we could end violence, we could establish an era of peace and love. Sad that most of us have forgotten those ideals. Most readers here have problems with your piece because
1. They didn’t read your piece right through or didn’t understand it.
2. They never travelled budget.

I’ve been a budget traveller for 8 years in Asia because it’s the best way to travel if you want to learn the culture. Some of my more conservative friends wanted to travel with me (they thought it would make good dinner jokes) but after a couple days they said, “You have to be either mad or dirt poor, or both, to travel like this.” They wanted the a/c coaches, porters, the 5* hotels but wanted to pay Rs 20 for it – “because it’s budget India.” I get attitude from people who think I’m stupid because I want to live in a village. They say, “Oh, he’s going native. Hehehe.”
They want the cool spots, whitewater rafting, bungee jumping, trance parties. There IS a dividing line between tourists and travellers and although we all range up and down that spectrum, I think we know where we basically belong on that scale. And the line isn’t blurring as Tim Patterson thinks. Yes I have conservative friends at home, but on the road we don’t travel or think the same way. I don’t think you “turned it up over the top.” That attitude is alive and kicking, maybe not in St Moritz, but definitely in Asia.

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