Viajante ou turista?

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.

A tourist...

• 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.

And you? Are you a traveler or a tourist?
(Hobo Traveler)