Are you a tourist or an adventurer?
Here's how to tell the difference:

Tourists take the bus, taxi, train or airplane
Adventurers take their own mode of transportation

Tourists are led around by guides
Adventurers find their own way

Tourists "see" the country
Adventurers "experience" the country

Tourists have suitcases
Adventurers have panniers

Tourists want to rest and relax
Adventurers want to learn and understand

Tourists go to see the scenery
Adventurers become part of the scenery

Tourists get ripped off by the local people
Adventurers are embraced and welcomed by the local people

Tourists flock to where other tourist go
Adventurers try and get away from these tourist places

Tourists take a lot of photos of other people
Adventurers get a lot of photos taken of them

Tourists have have the same photos in their photo albums
Adventurers see the world from an entirely different perspective

Tourists travel from city to city and see nothing in between where the real country is hiding from them
Adventurers have their eyes open to the entire country

Tourist only experience a world that they want to see and feel comfortable in
Adventurers experience it all - both good and bad

And that is the main reason why there are many more tourists than adventurers
Tourists don't want to see the truth. They just want a vacation - a mundane get away from an otherwise ordinary life.

It's good to be an Adventure Rider!

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I do these things not to escape life but so life does not escape me

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So many roads so little time but... AGATT

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