4 April 2012

Sometime in everyone's life you should get the chance to be a tourist in your own city. Drive around and be lost for a while, see if any famous people live in the area and stalk out their houses for fun, and maybe go get a few souvenirs. There's got to be some reason why tourists come and visit these places...they're cool! Learning something new about the place that you live can be fun, regardless of the boring tours that you often see. I take my own tour and it's so much fun. Lots of people don't get the chance to get out and learn interesting things about where they live or see the cool sights that everyone always talks about or that your city is known for. We always say that we need a vacation, but when you see all the amazing things that you have around you to begin with, maybe a vacation somewhere far away is less needed. Discover where you are first, then reach out to other places.

Maybe staying in your own city for a vacation wouldn't be a great idea because you need a change of scenery and a new group of people to talk with. Yet, I think that while that's a viable reason to leave, we end up taking the places we see everyday for granted. We start to let things go unnoticed that are funny and out of the blue. Maybe it's good for us that people from out of town come to visit...they force us to leave the everyday rut that we're constantly stuck in and branch out to see and discover more.