To be a tourist is to take in life, as it happens and where it happens, as you see it.

There is a sense of wonder that comes with knowing so little about where you are but learning as you go. The anonymousness of it all is astounding. You are a stranger in a strange land, an outsider seeing another side of life on the other side of this magnificent planet.

Observations become the recollections of what you have never seen before.

j.g.l.