A Map for Saturday: Our Year around the World 由<星期六的地图>激起的记忆

在旅行的第四天， 当RY 离开吉隆坡前往苏门答腊岛时，我一个人的旅行正式开始。走在吉隆坡街头，拿着几乎未打开过的地图，站在十字路口，不知道应该往左还是往右，但心里却仍感到莫名的一阵狂喜：因为这就是自由。

在旅行第八天，金马伦高原， 夜，我告诉已经旅行了一年的Michael我已经开始想家了。他笑着说你会习惯的。

在旅行的第18天，在丁加奴，又是一个告别的时刻。镇业开着车把我，伟权和Susani送到长途汽车站。车里的音乐有些抒情，我一直尽量的忍着，但是眼泪还是止不住。伟全和Susani陪我等到晚上九点一刻，然后乘夜车回新加坡。我终于又落单了，又回到了那周围为没有任何认识我，我也不认识任何认的日子。

14个小时以后我战战兢兢地来到了印尼日惹。当别人问我从哪儿来，我得犹豫些许再说“China。”

第二天在火车站巧遇学生游行，见其头戴鬼神面具，手舞白旗，领队的还拿着喇叭呼吁着什么。不得已，我又被迫退回旅游区。

接下来，从婆罗浮屠到火山再到Prambanan；从生死时速地根打瞌睡的司机狂飙了13个小时，到凌晨三点起来作吉普然后爬火山；从街边席地而坐的小吃岛路边认识林丹的鲜榨果汁点老板娘；印尼让我彻底忘记了旅游的孤独：因为每一天都是惊喜。

在旅行来到地32天，到了柬埔寨，日子过得有些麻木。为了躲避游人高峰，我听从店老板建议凌晨四点起来骑自行车到巴垦山看日出，当时并没有想到这一骑就是14个小时。。。吴哥群里见到的第一座寺庙是：Bayon。 震撼。45座浮雕像从360度俯视着你，他们神秘的微笑让人无处可逃。

最后一天在暹粒，朝拜吴哥窟。我却早没了那种新鲜感和好奇心，面对着吴哥窟心里泛起的竟是：只是又一座雄伟的寺庙。。。

就像这部纪录片里说的“

This long term turns out to be a bit emotional anti-climax all the big feelings at the beginning of the trip, but eventually you get numb to how great the lifestyle is and how tough the goodbye is conveyed

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但是这些当时觉得麻木的场景，在回忆起确有泛起阵阵暖意。

旅行结束近一个月，心还是没有完全平静下来，常常望着远处发呆。 “你在想什么？”面对这样的问题我怎么能回答呢？ 我们的provisions已经不再重合。最怕被问到的是“How is the trip?” 常常唐塞过去说”It’s great!” ，因为知道对方只是出于惯性来问这样一个问题，即便明知没有人真正愿意用五到十分钟听我絮叨旅行中的一个片断。

但是我还是得面对现实。看着当时和我一起在Phoenix实习的同学已经在独立做新闻了，看到别的同学拿到了德勤的Offer， 有时我质问我自己：这次旅行值得吗？

答案是，值得。

听到有人这样说：“你以为别人不喜欢旅行吗？他们现在没有，只是因为他们知道这样的机会以后会有的是。”

我对此没有异议，因为人的观念是不一样的。但是当我知道我用半学期挣来的足够支撑这趟旅行，当我意识到提前到电视台实习让我有了40天的假期，当我知道我不愿用这四十天去准备没有意义的GRE时，我决定离开了，去实现自己积累已久的梦。

旅行十天和四十天的差别在于一个以随时可以望见尽头，另外一个则不能。前者让你放松踏实，后者彻底奔放而不确定，让你抛开你原本生活中那个自己。

以下是在观看这部纪录片时摘录的一些引起我共鸣的话。

1.“People always say you are lucky to travel. No, it’s not luck. it’s just a matter of attitude.”

2. A: “Why not start a career? Why do you choose to travel?”

B: “Because I’m young now.”

3.The simple way of life.Material goods don’t mean as much as it used to.You have everything on your bag.  That’s something you take with you for the rest of your life.”

4. If I don’t do the things that I can now, I’m afraid I’ll never be able to.”

5. With backpacking, you get to know one another so quickly, and I love the fact that you’re friends straight away, with such a bond between one another.

6. The hardest part of travelling is saying goodbye to people, because you just become friends and you have to split. you might never be able to meet again.

7. The more you see the world, the less exotic it gets for you. You get to know the differences between countries are smaller than you expect.

8. people are always telling me that they don’t think they could do the trip for a year,  but until the point where I’m, OK a year is a long time to travel, but a short time to have a lifestyle. A life style that never keeps you in a place for more than a week, and people you run across are people that you are never going to see again, and people that you didn’t even know the day before.

9 (From an American perspective) Americans are not used to long-term budgeted travel, and because we don’t do it. Among the southands travellers we meet in my time away, only two are americans travelling for a year. Whent the competing commodity of time and money collade, our nateion’s choice is to sacrifice free time to earn additional money; but other rich countries make a different bargain, trading their money for the wealth of leisure times. Maybe because our travel is short, they are selling us extravagant, and price too hight to be enjoyed for long.

10.A(From the US):what do you think when you encounter an american?

B (From German): I hate him.

11:This long term turns out to be a bit emotional anti-climax all the big feelings at the beginning of the trip, but eventually you get numb to how great the lifestyle is and how tough the goodbye is conveyed

12. Since I’ve been away I realized everything else is material. A job is just a material thing. It gives some money. Where you live doesn’t matter, I mean I’ve been living in hostels for a year, it doesn’t matter where you live. I hope when I go back home, I’ll still think like that.

14. I took the trip, because I wanted to get something out of my system, just to see the places. But it doesn’t work, because the one thing that has changed about all of us who took this trip is that a normal life really doesn’t seem that attractive at all anymore, I can’t imagine not travelling again; I can’t image going back to do a real job.

15. Part of that loneliness is like a connection to yourself, because you reall become your best friend, because it’s just you.