What exactly is 'Selling Out'?

So today was a good day. Had a nice lie-in til half eight then read my Wheel of Time book. Yes i am startign from the very beginning again, its been a few years since i last read them. Went down to the saturday market, went online and then to the library. On the way home i caled intot he local bakery to get the loaf of triple grain wholemeal bread that i get every day when, shock horror, they had all been sold. Lukily i call in there so often they know to expect me and had put one away from me, which was pretty nice. So then back to the hostel to go for a swim in the pool and sun-bath/read for the afternoon. All in all, pretty nice.

Have been on to Liam a bit and he has decided to sell out and become a corporate suit, and one that specialises in luring in other inocent victims to the corporate web. I was wondering how long i would hold out for when i got home. Thinking i would rather not work behind a desk, in a suit, day in and day out. Perhaps i will just keep travelling around, i thought. But then i realised that i did not really want to keep travelling around. I am enjoying my trip and everything but i hae no way been bitten by the globe-trotting bug and want to keep wondering arond the world, i will be perfectly happy when i get home. So then i was thinking that all this travelling is a form of materialism in itself, but instead of collecting money and material things you compete as to who can see the most, who can have the most unique experience. I have noticed there is a lot of snobbery involved in travelling. the people with a car look down on those who take bus tours, those who hitch claim to have a better holiday than those in a camper van etc. It is naff to visit certain places as they are too 'touristy' and people are always trying to show they have had the most puritan experience.

'I went to South east Asia for four weeks'
"SE Asia?, in 4 weeks? I spent 5 months there, got off the tourist trail"
"everywhere is a tourist trail in Asia, i worked with orphans in India"
"India, pah. i lived with beggers in South America?"
"well i contracted AIDS in Africa"

I am guilty of it as well to some degree. Think some people dont see have the country and are just here to get drunk and party. But then who am i to tell them what to do, some would see me as having a very superficial holiday as i am mostly in town and am actually, shock-horror, working. After debating all this in my mind for a while, i came to the conclusion that i do not have a clue what i want to do when i get home