Sun Valley, Idaho is practically synonymous with skiing and winter snow sports—and for good reason. Interest in skiing surged in the decades after the first Winter Olympics in 1924. Sun Valley Resort opened in 1936 with the goal of becoming America’s premier ski resort—debuting the world’s first chairlift, adapted from a system used to haul bananas onto ships in Panama.
In ‘Airplane Mode,’ Not All Travelers Head in the Same Direction
11.12.2023 - 08:03 / nytimes.com
Like exercise, flossing and college, travel has long been held up as an incontrovertible good — an essential part of the modern human experience. Lately, though, there’s been some pushback from the smart set, if not the jet set.
The staycation, a word Merriam-Webster has traced to World War II advertising, lost any remaining stigma during pandemic lockdowns, with the air suddenly clear of traffic pollution and birdsong audible in one’s own backyard. In The New Yorker last summer, the philosopher Agnes Callard laid out a “Case Against Travel,” prompting a flurry of avid, even angry, rebuttals and calls of “clickbait” from people who enjoy going to unfamiliar places, some pounded out indignantly from the road.
And now lands “Airplane Mode,” by Shahnaz Habib, a lively and, yes, wide-ranging book that interrogates some of the pastime’s conventions and most prominent chroniclers.
Beginning with the assumption that “travel” is a pastime at all, rather than a potentially violent upheaval, or a battle with bureaucracy. “Only Americans, British, Australians and Japanese travel,” a carpet-store proprietor tells Habib when she visits Konya, Turkey, a variation of an edict she heard, with more condescension, in graduate school: “People from the third world do not travel; they immigrate.”
Habib prefers the term “third world” to its more politically correct alternatives, she explains in a passionate afterword, praising a certain “audacity of its unwieldy internal rhyme” that Steely Dan has also noticed. She is a translator who has worked for the United Nations, and the English language is a source of sensual fascination. She considers the oft-criminalized practice of “loitering,” for example, “so close to littering and its suggestion of something that shouldn’t be there and bringing also to mind the lottery and the gamble of waiting for something to happen.”
Habib was born in Kozhikode, India, and grew up in an “unhistoric” district in the seaside city of Kochi: a jumble of fish markets, sewing and hardware shops that she thanks Robinson Crusoe for ignoring. Her father, like Macon Leary in Anne Tyler’s “The Accidental Tourist,” hates to travel, preferring his familiar bed and reading online news. He declined a drive-by past the White House (“Why? What is there?”) and declared a helicopter trip over Manhattan “eminently avoidable.” He gets to know foreign destinations by inspecting their fruits and vegetables. I love this guy.
Habib marries a white American man, who blithely assumes a babymoon to Paris while her green card is in process will not be a problem. “It is impossible to tell a good story in which your primary antagonist is paperwork,” the author writes, but she’s wrong. The couple’s quest for an Advance
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