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The Tourist/Traveler Argument
On 2 Jun 2006 12:01:59 -0700, "Guy Verhofstadt"
wrote: Cathy L wrote: On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 18:22:24 -0700, Citizen Ted wrote: Though I was tempted to weigh in on the Cathy L thread (+1000 posts and counting), PTravel made a very nice post about his definitions of tourist and traveler. I'd like to break out that discussion. From PTravel, paraphrased: Traveler: independent minded soul equipped with a guidebook and a sense of adventure. Tourist: Someone who has overcome their xenophobia only enough to permit riding around in an hermetically-sealed tour bus, with occasional excursions outside to McDonalds or KFC. I generally agree with his assessment, as the word "tourist" to me has always meant "someone on a tour", and a tour is a guided visit to a place. To me, a "traveler" is someone who "travels" - a person going from point to point by various means with various intent. They may be on holiday, going to a new work place, moving to a new home or just drifting. But their interface with their journey is close to what PTravel described with such brevity. I've never been on a guided tour, so I can't say whether they are stupid and dreadful, though I suspect they are. The idea of being cooped up on a bus with a bunch of unadventurous dorks while some paid circus barker describes the history of a cathedral into a cheap bus PA system is enough to make me want to burst out of my skin and start screaming. To be "let out" to spend a few hours on my own is, to me, humiliating and demeaning. Because of this, I've never had any interest in guided tours or their evil sister, cruise holidays. I would consider taking a ship to a destination, but I would never stay cooped up on some floating Las Vegas casino with 800 perfumed hogs. My friend Dave just got back from his first cruise (Alaska) and hated it. A good portion of the guests got sick with flu, including his wife and father-in-law, who were both miserable the whole week. He enjoyed the few day excursions on land and enjoyed views from the ship, but the overall experience left him unsatisfied. Can't blame him. I'd have gone bananas. I don't want to start a war of defined terms, but I do think that tourists are not travelers, and travelers are not tourists. Tourists have every right to cruise around in their buses and eat McDonalds crud at every exotic location on Earth. I won't deny them that. In fact, I encourage weak-willed folks who prefer such tours to stay on their buses and lock into their international hotels, eat at KFC and buy stupid trinkets outside cathedrals. This way, I'm less likely to bump into their pasty, fat asses when I'm traveling. Thank you. - TR I just looked up the word "obnoxious" in the dictionary. It seems a lot of your names are listed there. Cathy what about 'noxious', spag. bol. every night What about it?? Cathy |
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The Tourist/Traveler Argument
On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 23:48:22 +0200, Martin
wrote: On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 18:26:19 GMT, Cathy L wrote: Thank you. - TR I just looked up the word "obnoxious" in the dictionary. It seems a lot of your names are listed there. LOL Good one. The word "gullible" isn't in the dictionary. ************* DAVE HATUNEN ) ************* * Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow * * My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps * |
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The Tourist/Traveler Argument
On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 17:23:50 -0700, Hatunen wrote:
On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 23:48:22 +0200, Martin wrote: On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 18:26:19 GMT, Cathy L wrote: Thank you. - TR I just looked up the word "obnoxious" in the dictionary. It seems a lot of your names are listed there. LOL Good one. The word "gullible" isn't in the dictionary. YES IT... oh... -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- -- |
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The Tourist/Traveler Argument
On Sat, 03 Jun 2006 13:30:01 +0200, Martin wrote:
On Sat, 3 Jun 2006 12:23:28 +0100, (David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and prestwich tesco 24h offy) wrote: irwell wrote: [] Traveller in the UK anyway is used to define those gypsy and other types that cannot abide being in one place for more than a few days or weeks. Yes. One of my chamber operas is called Travellers, and it's not used to mean tourists. Then again, it also has a dog who turns out to be St. Chistopher... I have a traveler on the back of my boat. It's also a takeaway beer in some parts... -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- -- |
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