Tourism vs. Travel

 

The old voyagers risked life and limb to get where they were going.  Every journey was one of discovery.  For long, there were no practical maps, just traditional itineraries.

Many have commented on the decline of travel into mere tourism -- fatsos clad in flowered shorts,  having arrived by plane, snapshotting everything  and seeing nothing.

But better than either  is … pilgrimage:

http://blog.myocn.com/travel-blogs/imagining-the-holy.html


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