Are you a tourist or a traveler?

Watching the trailer for Roadrunner, the documentary about the life of chef Anthony Bourdain that has just been released in the United States, a scene caught my attention in which he is lying in front of a handwritten sign with the phrase 'Be a traveler, not a tourist!'. His voice is heard in the background, reflecting deeply on travel: “Traveling is not always something beautiful. You walk away, you learn, you get scars and marks, and you change throughout the process."

If we think about it, traveling the way we do today is a true wonder. On . . .