Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience.
Irony is the attendant of hope and the fuel of hope is innocence.
A more or less accurate measure of class in America is TV size: the bigger your TV, the lower your class.
All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel
The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class.
Tourism requires that you see conventional things, and that you see them in a conventional way.