A traveler ...
- carries a towel.
- needs a reading light because they read books.
- leaves with one bag and returns with one bag, and does not send one home.
- knows the name of 3 cheap guidebooks.
- uses the internet daily.
- ask what day it is, and a tourist wants to know the time.
- does not have a mobile phone, a tourist does.
- does not iron their clothes.
- walks slow a tourist walks fast.
- will bring in U.S. dollars because they know the world uses dollars.
- knows how to say hello in many languages.
- normally travels and an independent or solo traveler.
- slept with bedbugs on more than one occasion!
- changes routes, itineraries, schedules and wanders the planet.
- never stays in one location more than three months.
- calculates the distance in terms of time, normally calculates by bus travel time.
- knows that to go everywhere on the planet he cannot avoid getting dirty.
- does not know when they are going home.
- know the best way to do laundry is to do one to three pieces in the shower daily.
- does not carry a towel, they expect one to be in the Hotel.
- does not need a reading light, because they sightsee continuously.
- leaves with one bag and returns with many, and even ships one home.
- will have the bellman carry the bags, and the taxi waiting at the door.
- buys a round trip ticket.
- buys an around the world plane ticket.
- pays with a credit card or buys travelers checks in their home country.
- wants to rent a car.
- has an itinerary.
- pays what the taxi driver tell him or her, did not negotiate.
(Hobo Traveler)
