Sounds like a philosophy of life to me. I love traveling. It's not a fluke that I am doing (sometime after the book that beckons is written) this worldwide journey to creative class centers. I don't agree that travel is necessarily dangerous, but it is unchartered territory for the traveler.
Travel, argues Boorstin, is the journey into the unknown, a sometimes dangerous ordeal with no guarantees but many promises. Tourism, by contrast, is a different state of mind, expectant of an "antiseptic, pleasant, relaxing, comfortable experience." "We go more and more where we expect to go. We get money-back guarantees that we will see what we expect to see.... We look into a mirror instead of out a window, and we see only ourselves." -- Reader comment on Rolf Pott's Vagabonding blog referencing quotes from Pulitzer Prize-winning Daniel Boorstin
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