So, you love to travel? That’s cool. Sort of. Or rather, it would be if you talked about the places you’ve checked off your list in a way that reflected on anything meaningful.
You don’t care about the communities that suffer from tourism and gentrification, or the impact your jet-setting has on the environment (which is whatever, corporations should be taking the heat on that one). But you’ve adopted this nebulous vanity as your entire personality, and it’s as boring as the airports you spend most of your life in.
Do your thing, life is short, whatever. But just know that few of us are impressed with your stomping around the world like a child playing Candy Land. What’s impressive is the people who do the work, who build the communities that you dip your privilege-blessed toes into on your path toward enlightenment.
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Big jealousy energy.
Listening to really long travel stories can be quite boring
1: Yes, and pouting isn’t a good look.
Yeah, I can name one jealous person – come on, guess. Yes, let’s stop traveling to those tourist spots, and when the cafes, activity vendors, and hotels shut down and the people lose their jobs, you can go mission accomplished.
“What’s impressive is the people who do the work, who build the communities that you dip your privilege-blessed toes into on your path toward enlightenment.”
Based on the graphic attached to this story, I’d say those people vanished over a thousand years ago. In some cases, it took the European White Man to hack those temples out of the jungle. Where were their indigenous descendants in the meantime? Certainly not trimming the brush away from the foundations. So, I’m going in guilt-free.
I’m with you OP
It’s not jealousy.
And to no. 4, you make a fair point but I see tourism often as a false economy.
“I see you with you having a nicer car than me and a nicer house than me and a better job than me and posting all your fancy Instagram travel photos and… I mean, what about your CARBON FOOTPRINT? Have you ever thought of that? Huh, have you?!?”
but
Afterall
ain’t it Worth it
to see the children with
their faces pressed into the
razor-wire topped Chainlink fence
watching as
you stuff yourself
with ‘just One more!’
helping of gelatinousness?
C’mon, man!
throw some small
Change at ’em! cheapskate!