Anthony Bourdain's life is the dream for wanderlust traveler millennials like me. He gets paid to travel the world for his shows that have become increasingly more popular.
- He gets to travel the world and see the best of things and gets the best cuisine. He tries food from all of the countries in his show. Some places he eats the finest cuisine and other time he goes to very restricted areas and eats less than desirable meals from different cultures. He gets to see the worst of things and how people live even in war-torn countries. Even after all of the fancy meals he eats, his favorite food is still the American hot dog.
- He has experienced more cultures in the last five years than most experience in their entire lives. In his shows Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, The Layover, and Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, he takes you to countries that are rarely seen the way that he displays them. He goes through a huge variety of places like the countries of Georgia, Libya and Myanmar. He also explores popular cities like Jerusalem, Copenhagen, Tokyo, Chicago and Detroit.
- He tells it like it is. No sugar coating. He truly tries to roam the countries. He displays many emotions that travel shows wont display. His anger and frustration at situations, his uncertainty, his happiness and laughter while playing sports with locals and losing, and laughing over libations.
- Bourdain gets to do his part in public service by showing us viewers on Netflix or television what the rest of the world is like and makes us want to leave home to travel for a few years to see and feel it ourselves. He feels like a travel companion because you get so enticed in the shows that you feel like you are there and experiencing it.
- He writes books about what he loves. He writes books about his life, cooking and traveling. He isn’t a snob about his life. He has traits that make him more human than celebrity. He is a former addict that has been divorced and remarried and is a father. That makes him more like someone who wasn't born into the celebrity life but more like someone who has struggled like the rest of us, but maybe not in the same ways.
Bourdain has a unique life and voice about him that keep his shows entertaining to millennials like me and show the viewers what parts of the world are like that we may never get to travel.
