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Why Being a Traveler Beats Being a Tourist
Lessons from a summer of adventure
Noah Cracknell
April 13, 2023
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Last year, I traveled 20K+ miles and lived in eight different countries. It was one of the best years of my life, filled with learning, growth, and unforeseen obstacles. And even though I was a foreigner in every country I visited, I was never a tourist.
Yes, there's a difference.
When I first decided to meet my friend, Joey, in Valencia, Spain, last summer, I had no idea what the next three months would hold. I also didn't know where I'd be staying or which countries I'd visit for the majority of the trip. It was all kind of up in the air. My game plan was to be present everywhere I went; that's it.
"The traveler sees what they see; the tourist sees what they've come to see."
The real difference between the traveler and tourist is their mindset.
In one of my favorite books, Vagabonding, Rolf Potts shares a few observations that help distinguish the traveler from the tourist ⬇️
"The traveler was active, he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience,” Daniel Boorstin opined in 1961. “The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him.”
"Tourists don't know where they've been,” observed Paul Theroux twenty years ago, “travelers don't know where they're going.”
"Travelers are those who leave their assumptions at home, and [tourists are] those who don't," wrote Pico Iyer in 2000.
These revelations capture the differences between the traveler and the tourist. The tourist expects things to happen, is passive, and goes through life with rigid beliefs and ideals. The traveler is curious, resilient, and comfortable with the plan not going according to plan.
Last summer, I spent four months traveling, getting comfortable with being uncomfortable, seeing the world as it is, and building a catalog of memories I won't forget for the rest of my life.
That's the upside of being a traveler. You'll have a portfolio of micro-moments to replay anytime and relive those precious moments on the road for the rest of your life.
The best part about the travelers' mindset is that anyone can adopt it. As Rolf Potts points out, "We were all born with winning tickets -- and cashing them in is a simple matter of altering our cadence as we walk through the world."
Even the loftiest tourists can become travelers. All it takes is approaching life with a more present and open mind.
Till next week!
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Noah Cracknell
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