A more or less accurate measure of class in America is TV size: the bigger your TV, the lower your class.
The wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.
The simple is carefully shunned by those who labour to seem what they would be.
If the guidebook used to be critical, today it seems largely a celebratory adjunct to the publicity operations of hotels, resorts, and even countries.
If truth is the main casualty in war, ambiguity is another.
Travelers learn not just foreign customs and curious cuisines and unfamiliar beliefs and novel forms of government. They learn, if they are lucky, humility.