{"id":18044,"date":"2011-07-08T11:22:39","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T15:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=18044"},"modified":"2011-07-08T11:22:39","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T15:22:39","slug":"in-defense-of-wanderlust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/08\/in-defense-of-wanderlust\/","title":{"rendered":"In Defense of Wanderlust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_18101\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18101\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/BLOG_elisabetheaves.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Elisabeth Eaves.\" width=\"300\" height=\"301\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18101\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/BLOG_elisabetheaves.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/BLOG_elisabetheaves-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/BLOG_elisabetheaves-299x300.jpg 299w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-18101\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elisabeth Eaves.<\/p><\/div>When you\u2019re young\u2014a child, a teenager, a twenty-something\u2014it seems, as Elisabeth Eaves says, \u201clike it will never end. You can do anything because time is limitless, it\u2019s infinite.\u201d You can move to a different state or a different country. You can buy a one-way plane ticket. You can go to graduate school. You can move in with your boyfriend and get engaged and buy a house; and then you can move out. You can sublet indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p>In her new book, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Wanderlust-Love-Affair-Five-Continents\/dp\/1580053114\/\">Wanderlust<\/a><\/em>, Eaves\u2014a journalist and author who has worked for <em>Forbes<\/em> and previously published <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bare-Naked-Truth-About-Stripping\/dp\/1580051219\/\">Bare: The Naked Truth About Stripping<\/a><\/em>, about her time as an exotic dancer\u2014does all of these things. Instead of making choices that follow neatly, one from the next\u2014the job that brings you to a city where you meet the person you marry\u2014the Eaves of <em>Wanderlust<\/em> makes decisions that consciously, thrillingly refuse to build on one another.<\/p>\n<p>She travels to Cairo as a twenty-year-old college student. At twenty-three, she hikes the notoriously difficult Kokoda trail in Papua New Guinea. Fleeing the rekindling of her relationship with her ex-fianc\u00e9, Stu, she joins a husband and wife sailing from Whangarei to Tonga and nearly dies when their vessel is caught in a vicious storm on the open ocean. In person, Eaves may be slender and fair-haired, but she carries herself with a graceful, noticeable composure that makes it easy to imagine her haggling, at dusk, with a Jeep driver in Pakistan, trying to get him to lower the price of a ride she and her boyfriend desperately need. She maintains eye contact. She exudes competence.<\/p>\n<p>And <em>Wanderlust<\/em>, though on the surface concerned with\u00a0Eaves\u2019s love of travel\u2014a celebration of years spent indulging that love, moving from one town, one country to the next with little notice, living abroad for months and years at a time, cut off, in the days before e-mail, from family and friends\u2014is also about the process by which she became the adult she is now. She doesn\u2019t have regrets, though she would tell her twenty-year-old self to \u201cspend more time trying to figure out what you want to do on your own. It\u2019s easy to fall back on what somebody else wants to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Becoming an adult, it seems, is largely about making choices. You have to choose one country over another, one man over another, one life over another. That means, of course, figuring out what you want\u2014and not just for tomorrow; for next month, next year. \u201cI don\u2019t know when you start thinking about time,\u201d she says. \u201cFor me it was in my late twenties or early thirties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Part of the process was going through a bad breakup with a man identified only as \u201cThe Englishman.\u201d In the book, she asks him to move to America with her, and when he accepts, the \u201csweet, painful, overwhelming desire\u201d she feels for him disappears. \u201cNothing, with me, can last,\u201d she concludes. And she begins to understand why people get married, buy houses, and have children\u2014these are \u201cscaffolds\u201d that can\u2019t be easily discarded, even after the first flush of passion has faded. \u201cThey build their worlds to get through all the rest,\u201d she says of the people who choose the comfort of domestic stability over the thrill of adventure. \u201cMaybe I should do that too.\u201d But it\u2019s only after the Englishman leaves her that she begins the painful process of building an emotional infrastructure that will tie her to one job, one city. It\u2019s a narrowing of options that I, in my early twenties, wish I could long for but can\u2019t quite yet. That is, Eaves would say, as it should be.<\/p>\n<p>Eaves has lived in New York for four years now, following a stint in the late nineties as a graduate student at Columbia, and she\u2019s now living with her fianc\u00e9. She has a steady job, as the opinions editor at <em>The Daily<\/em>. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t move abroad by myself right now,\u201d she says. \u201cI don\u2019t want to uproot and move somewhere new. I still think that would be a lot of fun when you\u2019re younger, but I don\u2019t think that\u2019s the right thing for me and my life right now. And I\u2019m happy about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s a relief for some of us to hear. Not everyone shares in Eaves\u2019 wanderlust. Some of us have never felt that trapped in a country or a relationship; we see freedom in a life filled with stability, security, permanence. But that may also be part of the appeal of a book like\u00a0<em>Wanderlust<\/em> and a person like Eaves. She did this so we don&#8217;t have to; and she ended up in the same place. And the girl who thought it was \u201cexciting\u201d and \u201cpleasurable\u201d to create \u201csituations that were hard to get out of then break out of them,\u201d the girl who felt an \u201coverwhelming sense of escape,\u201d has become a woman who still wants to travel\u2014to Southeast Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa\u2014but who knows she needs \u201ca home base.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Miranda Popkey is a contributing writer for The Daily. She is on the editorial staff of Farrar, Straus and Giroux.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you\u2019re young\u2014a child, a teenager, a twenty-something\u2014it seems, as Elisabeth Eaves says, \u201clike it will never end. You can do anything because time is limitless, it\u2019s infinite.\u201d You can move to a different state or a different country. You can buy a one-way plane ticket. You can go to graduate school. 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