A critique of the herd-following tendencies of 'indepedent travelers', from the the qUirKY jaPan HomEPage: "We are the slaves of Tony Wheeler, backpacker-peons, subjects of the Lonely Planet dictatorship. In our backpacker uniforms of Birkenstocks, pseudo-ethnic fashions, and expensive Jack Wolfskin or North Face backpacks, mineral water bottle in one hand and Lonely Planet guidebook in the other, it’s hard not to feel like a walking cliché....