Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 07.13.09 | 1:14 PM ET
NPR’s Scott Simon delivered a great little essay this weekend about his love for tourists. “I love tourists,” he says, “because they put fresh eyes on familiar places, and remind us that wherever we look, we can find something amazing.”
Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
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Chris 07.13.09 | 2:11 PM ET
That essay was very refreshing! Plus, my hometown got a positive mention for perhaps the first time ever.
Grizzly Bear Mom 07.15.09 | 12:08 PM ET
The tourists we get in Washington D.C. are great fun, particularly the children because EVERYTHING delights them. I’ll never forget how proud I was when my seven year old nephew was conversing with a Shahman through an interpreter. Yesterday we had three children on the metro playing their duck billed gazoos that quacked. It was even more fun to watch with them for the giant pink rabbit (advertisement) that appears on the subway tunnel.