Before I begin, I must make it clear that I am only a book lover, I haven't had a career in letters that allows me to appreciate a book in a professional way, so I only count on my interpretation of the world.
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The story of why I read this book is because my cousin wants to start traveling in Colombia, and he was looking for a book that could give him advice to be able to travel a lot spending little. A few days after our talk about traveling and all the tours we would do around the world if we were millionaires, he told me that he had found a book online that called his attention, the name of which is: "Traveling without toilet paper" written by Daniel Tirado (Colombian), the book arrived a few days later autographed by the author, which I thought was a nice gesture
A few weeks later it was in my hands, I really didn't know what to
expect because it was the first book of its kind that I had read.
Once I started reading it, I was a little shocked by the fact that the person who was writing it had enough resources to undertake the trip (I was thinking more about the story of the man who fought from scratch to achieve it) let's say that there was already half a piece of paper there toilet in his pocket, then the situation gets complicated when he runs out of money and has to start looking for work to be able to continue supporting himself and be able to continue traveling, but the author doesn't talk in depth about his work, only his work in Australia deserved that it was written with each of the feelings that it provoked (from this work, the author draws a reflection with which I fully identified).
As for the book itself, although the stories were entertaining, I came
to think that each story was going to be something like a guide on what it's
like to travel without a penny, something like: How much money could you save?
or what are the best routes?, but he makes a clarification about this and there
are already many books of this type, he recommends that you have to read them
before visiting each place, get the best information possible and make a travel
plan. What he wanted to transmit with the trip was something like: "a
backpacker's diary" portraying each of his experiences on paper, from the
joy of connecting spiritually with a place to the diarrhea caused by an exotic
dish (which is to follow connected but on another level haha).
I think that the cultural and historical information about each place
was very vague, I only felt that interest in learning about the past on one of
the trips to Japan, but that really motivates me to want to make my trip and
fill in the information gaps, maybe we aren't looking for the same thing when
we travel. One of the messages that I share with the author is the importance
of mixing with the people of each place, there and only there will you be able
to really get to know a place and Daniel fully complies with this advice. He
knows people all over the world, people he can turn to on each trip, people
with whom you can share stories and be the ambassadors of each place they
represent, the cultural exchange is what seems to me the most significant thing
about undertaking a trip of this type.
"The people of Hiroshima believed that nothing would ever grow on
the burned land,
for the next 75 years, but that fall you could see plants sprouting
among
the rubble"
I somewhat disliked the way he talked about women and in certain comments he became repetitive about the beauty of women and what he wanted or didn't want to do to them (I want to think that this is due to the hormonal load of men, 25 years, haha). I guess that data about beauty in each country is something that might interest travelers, personally, I was a bit bored. Some comments I think in the eyes of others could be perceived as racist, but it could be that I didn't understand the humor of the writer, you will have to judge for yourselves.
"It's not sexism, but seeing those pretty Japanese girls bowing
their heads and greeting me tenderly looking into my eyes makes my imagination
fly, my heart races and I imagine things that I don't even tell them. Mentally
I imagine them all organized like this garter belts and a skirt telling
me," Yes, Dani, do whatever you want to me Dani. I'm all yours. I love you
Dani". I can't get those images out of my mind, and even if I try to push
them away, they are always there"
What I liked was the author's sincerity in saying that he had no idea how to write a book and he wrote as he spoke. It should be remembered that the intention of the writer was to document his experiences in each country traveled, so his opinions were going to be more than subjective. While I was reading, I felt as if a friend or family member were telling me about the adventures they experienced on their vacations in another country, in that sense I felt comfortable because it was a familiar language although their humor wasn't shared (as I had already said before).
The images contextualize the stories and there are some that make us understand what the writer is feeling, it is a light reading that encourages you to fulfill your wishes and travel around the world and not stay locked in the four walls you know. I think that if the author had integrated the recommendations at the end of the book with each of the problems he had, but in a more detailed way it would have been much more appealing to the reader (or to readers like me) something like story + moral = recommendation vital.
"I was lamenting that I did not have better shoes, until I saw a
man who had no feet"
The writer is from a region of Colombia (Medellín) where people are warriors, hard workers, who do not get stranded in any situation and full of charisma, Daniel clearly reflects each of these characteristics. Entangled (in a good way) and with a lot of "perrenque" (encouragement and energy) is my final perception of Daniel Tirado, the man who gets out of monotony and lives his daily dream of traveling the world. Its clearest messages are: if you intend to travel, you can achieve it and you must be clear at some point, you will have to look for it, you must have indigenous malice (that is, be more alive than the others) and always see the positive side of any problem, which It will always be better to share with the locals than to go to the largest shopping centers in the city, and that the essence of each site lies in the people of the region.
"A traveler is not nourished by perfect trips, because it is just the risk, the adventure and some suffering when something goes wrong, that sensations and perceptions are fixed in the memory that last forever"
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