Not so the traveler

Angels & Demons, Nosara, Costa Rica, 2011, by Arthur Ou

[A]nother important difference between tourist and traveler is that the former accepts his own civilization without question; not so the traveler, who compares it with the others, and rejects those elements he finds not to his liking.—Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky

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