Viva Le Tourist

I am having this desire to wear a camera around my neck at all times to look like a perpetual tourist. Why? People have no expectations from a tourist. We treat a tourist differently. I wanna play with every shade of that difference between lost tourist and super local. Yea, the tourist gets charged more, the locals scoff at his slowness, pushing around him. Yet there's a special sort of respect for the tourist. Maybe its because we are awed by the tourist, who by chance or crook or exposition of will gained the means and courage to travel. We allow the tourist to be odd. And we judge their failures less harshly and their successes more grandly. Perhaps taking on the accoutrements and freedoms of a tourist while in our town can teach us a little about ourselves.