Gary’s Q&A

Listener question & Gary’s response · Transcript passage

Henry Suski asks Do you ever try engage both locals and tourists to be more interested in culture and history in the areas you’ve traveled too? When traveling, it’s been a common occurrence for me to talk to locals, who haven’t visited cool attractions in their own backyard.

Yes and no. I often meet people, but I don’t go out of my way to do so. Either it happens organically, or it doesn’t.

You are right that most people don’t visit tourist attractions where they live. It is one of the ironic things about people who say they want to travel like a local. People who live in a place aren’t traveling, and they aren’t thinking of doing travel things.