- An almost frantic compulsion to travel the world, exploring the most depressed, off-the-beaten-track destinations in an attempt to broaden horizons, gain a deeper
understanding of those less fortunate, and generally feel better about yourself, and your egalitarian worldliness.
- Seeking out various backwater and Third World locales in which to spend your valued vacation time, as a way to slum, learn and feed
your self important elitism.
- A vacationer more apt to sleep on a dirt floor in Senegal than a bed at the Hotel Le Meurice.
- See also
cultural slumming, safariist, and being on safari.
Sally
Backpacker, an
obsessed chronic traveler, planned out this summer's itinerary, making sure to hit Bhutan,
Equatorial Guinea and Malawi, with a return trip through Bangladesh.