How old is backpacker Tucki?

In Kerala, Austria, Wolfgang Lake, and Cannes, France, I took a group photo with our reporter (photo by Cai): Zhang Jinpeng, 32, Aquarius. After graduating from Nankai University, I went to Holland to study for an MBA. I have been backpacking around the world since 200 1, and I am the first professional traveler in China.

At the end of last year, when major bookstores took stock of the best-selling books in the past year, they often found that the book entitled "Ten Years of Backpacking Travel" ranked first in the tourism category. Even in the sales charts of all kinds of books, they often make it into the top ten. And its author is a big boy who went out from Tianjin. Before the publication of this book, it was a super-hot travel post, which made countless donkey friends spread continuously. A boy who graduated from college changed his job eight times and traveled around the world with a backpack for ten years. Every time he saves a sum of money, he will travel, travel and travel again. Until three years ago, he found that traveling can also make money, so he became a professional traveler. During the trip, he took wonderful photos and wrote interesting paragraphs, so his life dream was interpreted by him.

Not long ago, the reporter met Tucki who had just finished his trip. Shortly thereafter, he will go to Tunisia and then to Australia. The itinerary is in full swing. He travels most of the year. On the day of the interview, Tucki was carrying a huge traveling bag. His casual clothes and conversation made it hard to believe that he was over thirty. He drank coffee, talked about what he had seen and heard in the past ten years, and showed reporters the beautiful photos he took, which was enviable.

He has seen a girl holding a lotus flower, a teenager playing football on the rails, a thoughtful Sahrawi man and a dedicated Irish girl, been to Alice's fairyland and visited a paradise without competition ... There have been countless wonderful moments, but he has also tasted the ups and downs.

Sleeping on the street, encountering thieves, being stripped naked at the customs, and volunteering ... For ten years, he has worked in different jobs, slept in different beds, met different people, been happy, lonely, proud and depressed. He said these words casually, as if it had nothing to do with himself. It sounds simple, but it can surprise people. He drew strength from San Mao, Guevara and Don Quixote whom he worshipped, and he was always "on the road", which influenced more people invisibly.

Tourism is a profitable profession.

Talking about the reason why he loves traveling, Tucki said that it has something to do with an experience he had when he was a child. At that time, he was seven years old. In order to go to the water park, he sold the waste at home for 70 cents, and then spent 50 cents on the bus to Balitai. He walked for more than half an hour and climbed over the wall to enter the park. He was crazy all afternoon. "It was spring, the weather was very good, and there were little tadpoles in the pond." Tucki still remembers these details.

It was already dark when I left the water park. He had only two cents left in his pocket, so he had to avoid the ticket. He didn't know that his family was anxiously looking for him. "That time I thought my father would hit me, but he didn't. He said that I am no longer young and can't always let my parents worry. " Tucki said it had a great influence on him. "If my father had hit me, maybe the bud of my trip would have been killed."

Apart from this childhood experience, there are three things that keep Tucki traveling.

He went to Yangshuo in ten days between finishing his college graduation thesis and waiting for the graduation ceremony. "At that time, I felt that the local small boss lived a fairy-like life. Every day, he drinks, drinks tea, reads books and basks in the sun. They don't go to work, run a small shop, earn money for half a year, and then travel to Shangri-La and other places, bringing back some capital they can talk about in Kan Kan every time. I especially envy that state. "

While traveling in France, he once met an old man. It was this old man's words that gave him great encouragement and made him stick to his travel beliefs. "He talked about his travel experience when he was young, saying that there were too many things he had never seen before, so why not make good use of it while he was young? Life is like a day for decades, and there is no chance of this experience when you are old. "

On a hill on the border between France and Spain, he also met a travel "genius". "Argentines often work as waiters for three months and earn money before traveling. After completing a trip, I will work in the local area for another three months. Wherever he goes, he will integrate into the local life and learn about the local culture. I think that is the life of a real wanderer. " Tucki said enviously.

After graduating from undergraduate course, he found a job in a shipping company. He thinks this job will swell his travel wallet, but the endless meetings and dinners make him feel bored. He thinks this is not the life he wants. After more than three months, he resigned. "When I resigned for the first time, I was very excited and felt that I was finally relieved." Soon, he passed the TOEFL test and went to the Netherlands to study for an MBA. During his stay in Holland, he traveled all his holidays. "I donated all the money saved from food expenses to the transportation industry in Europe and visited almost all my classmates in Europe." After the thesis defense, the long vacation was used by him to complete a self-help tour in Europe, so there were many accidents.

On that occasion, in the subway in Paris, he felt that Bao was moved. When he turned around, he saw several children laughing outside the subway and saying that they had stolen one of his literary stars. After leaving France, he went to Greece and Italy. He didn't sleep for two days and nights on the road. After arriving in Pisa, it was already past ten o'clock in the evening. "I can't afford a hotel, and the Internet cafe is closed." Homeless, he slept under the leaning tower of Pisa all night.

Besides being stolen and sleeping on the street, he was stripped naked once. "That was when I was in transit at the Swiss airport. The police may suspect that I have drugs on me After a particularly large German shepherd dog smelled me, I was unwilling. I was called to a hut and told to take off all my clothes. " Naked, he didn't feel embarrassed, only felt cold. Later, the customs officers really couldn't find anything, so they gave up.

On the train back to Holland from Denmark, Tucki couldn't restrain his inner excitement, and decided to write a book to commemorate this trip to Europe, so he finished his first novel, I Stuffed Europe into a Backpack. Soon after the book was published, he had to face the pressure of finding a job after getting his degree. In fact, with his experience and education, it is not difficult to find a good job in Europe, but the atmosphere of nine to five disgusted him, so he gave up.

After returning to China, Tucki once lived in Beijing, when he was in an awkward position. "When I first went to Beijing, I lived in the basement, and the rent was 150 yuan for one month. At that time, I moved four times a year and lived in a house outside the Fifth Ring Road. But even if life is tight, I don't want to go to work. " Later, he managed to find a job, and soon after, he traveled again. Over the years, he worked as a technician of a logistics company, a logistics analyst of a financial company, a reporter of a TV station, an editor of a travel magazine, and a nightclub planner, but the longest time was no more than three months. Every time he makes money, he will go where he wants to go.

But after all, the lack of expenses has brought great pressure. Just as he was about to give up his trip, he suddenly received a short message. "I had contact with a media director of the French Tourism Bureau before, when she sent me a text message inviting me to travel to Provence."

When Tucki asked the other party why he was looking for him, the other party said that the French Tourism Bureau had a project to invite travelers to travel to France and write articles on tourism promotion. Originally, the other party had a "royal writer", but because something happened suddenly, he couldn't come and needed a replacement. When someone reads Tucki's travel notes, they will naturally think of him.

"The significance of that short message is that it opened my mind: in addition to traveling at my own expense, there is another way to cooperate with various national tourism administrations."

Since then, his travel life has been completely changed. When he published his first book, he imagined that he could earn travel expenses through the manuscript fee, but the money was only enough for a few months.

Until now, Tucki has maintained cooperation with many tourism bureaus. "The Tourism Bureau provides me with accommodation and transportation expenses, and sometimes the domestic tourism management department will give me extra cash." In the last three years, all his trips were "invited" by others, and he basically didn't have to spend money himself. "Eighty percent is the place I want to go, just talk to the tourism bureau and ask them to sponsor. Twenty percent of the itinerary is arranged by various tourism bureaus. "

So far, the tourism bureau that has cooperated with him for the longest time is the French Tourism Bureau. "Up to now, I have been to France ten times, of which Cannes impressed me the most. 20 10 film festival went to Cannes for the first time. At that time, the whole street was red carpet and many stars were there. Qin Hao (starring in films such as Green Red) went to Cannes for the third consecutive year on 20 10, and I also pretended to be an entertainment reporter to interview him. "

Tucki said it well, which is really enviable. But he said that in fact, most travelers are not suitable for professional travelers.

"You can earn hundreds of thousands of dollars every year, and you don't have to bear anything when you travel, but it's not easy to get to today." "Because many tourism bureaus give travelers very harsh conditions, travelers are required to have a certain accumulation. This kind of thing can only be effective if it is done first. I have' gone out'. If others do it again, they will repeat it. Maybe the new person will succeed, but it is very unlikely. It's not that I'm afraid of competition, but if you want to be a top professional traveler, you really need to accumulate. They won't invite you unless you have some money to invest in the early stage and then get approval from the tourism bureau. Another shortcut is to write a blog. When your blog has a particularly high click rate, they will also invite you. "

Find love and pass it on on the journey.

During the trip, different people left different impressions on Tucki. Some make his poor life worse, while others give him the belief to continue traveling ... These people are like various combinations in a kaleidoscope, which makes his travel full of changes.

"I was stolen $300 from a village in Laos. This village is basically isolated from the rest of the world. There is no electricity, no Internet and cell phone signals, and no road to communicate with the outside world. Only one boat passes by every day. I live in an inn run by local people. My boss's daughter has appendicitis and asked me for $65,438+000, but $65,438+000 is also important to me. Besides, my room rate has been paid to him in advance. But I still gave him dozens of dollars, thinking that I should be able to solve his urgent needs. I didn't expect them to steal 300 yuan from me. I was particularly angry. That experience made me understand that there are many things in the journey that are unpredictable. "

Another time, after being stolen, there was an argument with the clerk. The shopkeeper threatened him with a machete and said that he would chop him to death. "At that time, there was no boat, no cell phone signal, and I didn't know who to ask for help. I am close to him, and he can easily hurt me. That night, I hid in another hotel, and there was only one bolt on the door, which was not safe. It rained that night, and there were no stars and no moon. I have a particularly strong fear in my heart. At that time, I felt that if I could return to China, I must live a better life. "

He also experienced robbery in Barcelona last summer. "When I was looking at the menu at the door of the restaurant at night, I suddenly felt my hand sink and found a man who was shorter than me but stronger than me standing by, trying to take my camera away. But the camera strap got entangled in my arm, so I pulled it hard. We are trapped in that busy street. People come and go, many people come around, but no one helps me. We both pulled the camera back, and he hit me, but his hand didn't work hard and he finally ran away. At this time, some guys came out of the shop and I asked them why they didn't help. They said that the man just cut off three of their buddies last month, saying that this kind of thing often happens, and I was unlucky when I met it. So I was particularly scared at the time. "

However, during his trip to Tucki, there were still many things that moved him.

"That time I wanted to go to a brewery in France and use a map as a guide. There are no contour lines on the map. I thought it was getting closer, but it was just getting higher and higher. More than two hours passed, but it still didn't move. Just when I didn't know what to do, I met an old French lady, learned about my situation and sent me to my destination. When I thanked her, she told me that her son was traveling abroad. If this happens to him in China, she believes that China will have good people to help him. She said,' You don't need to repay me immediately, but you need to help people like me to make the power of love circulate.' This sentence impressed me deeply. "

Helping others is helping yourself. Therefore, finding love and passing it on during the journey has become Tucki's travel belief. He used to be a volunteer in Kolkata, India, helping patients wash clothes, wash dishes, give medicine and take a bath. After the Wenchuan earthquake, he took care of the wounded soldiers in a hospital in Chengdu, sending them water, feeding them and emptying toilets every day. "I didn't expect to do these things before, but I felt particularly practical after doing it."

Volunteer activities have also made Tucki know many friends, which is the biggest gain of his trip. "Travel should be integrated with local people and make friends with them. What I appreciate is experiential travel, from advanced to low-level, which must be understood. Once in Slovakia, I lost my cell phone and my room card. An old man picked them up and sent them to the hotel. Later, he invited me to drink, which made me feel at home. "

He said that he went to Spain last summer and a tour guide named Fernando accompanied him for four days. "He is a little fat, and we always talk about Don Quixote. He said I was ideal, like Don Quixote, and I said he was pragmatic, like three ugliness. What moved me was that he sent me to the railway station, waited with me for the train for more than an hour, and gave me a deep hug when he left. After leaving, he waved to me and patted his stomach, as if the three uglies were saying goodbye to Don Quixote. " Tucki said with emotion.

In the final of Vancouver Winter Olympics, Pang Qing and Tong Jian used a song "No regrets" as the background music, which is the theme song of a musical. After the game, the TV announcer recited the lyrics of this song: "Fight the invincible opponent and bear unbearable pain. Go where warriors dare not go, no matter how desperate, no matter how far away. Don't hesitate to fight for your dreams. " Tucki said that this was a passage that touched his heartstrings and made him cry, because he saw the power of dreams.