Inside ‘The Most Schizophrenic Job in All of Travel’
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 07.17.06 | 7:07 AM ET
Steve Hendrix calls himself a professional mercenary. His fight? Working as an assistant tour guide on a 14-day European bus tour, a journey he chronicled Sunday in the Washington Post. It’s a great piece of you-are-there journalism. Funny, too. “There are two words that we tour guides hate to hear when checking into Budapest hotels with 30 road-whipped passengers waiting in the bus, all limp from their third change of cities in six days and footsore from hours of sightseeing in 93-degree heat in a country without air conditioning amid a group-dynamic that is just barely propped up by the prospect of a much-anticipated ‘Hungarian feast’ in the hotel dining room an hour from now,” Hendrix writes. “Those words are: ‘What dinner?’”
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
