On The Write Path

Not exactly a tourist nor a traveler

I've met many travelers and tourists. Tourists tend to be conventional. They've been to London, Paris and Rome, visited the churches, museums and monuments. Just as thousands of others have. They feel safest on a package tour. Even if they are adventure tourists seeking out a mountain, a zip-line, a dive into a blue lagoon... they only do what others have done before them. Few are true adventurers going off into the unknown.

Travelers however... may not know what they are doing next week or tomorrow.... why? Because it doesn't matter! The trip is more important than the destination. They may travel with maps and guidebooks but those are only for reference. Why go where everyone goes when there's a neat place to visit just around the corner! And why make definite plans when something better may come along?

Me? I'm in between. My bad nerves do not allow me to just go on the spur of the moment without some plan. I tell myself that I don't have the financial resources if something goes bad... I avoid risk. And yet... I've been in difficult situations and people have helped me. I've relied on the kindness of strangers and been inspired by their humanity. And I do like taking a different path and seeing what others do not see... with my own eyes

Monte used the terms "random romantic" and 'concrete sequentialist" today. But that's for another blog.

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