It's a Dangerous Business, Walking out Your Front Door

Traveling for pleasure is the most indulgent of luxuries, requiring expendable time, money and a desire to intrude the familiarity of one's self into the foreignness of new lands and cultures. No one wants to admit to being tourists yet Western Society has only two modes of travel. Are you in town for business, or pleasure? The efficient and the sly might combine or conflate the two, but the duality is firmly fixed in our minds. Business, or pleasure?

The entrepreneur and the consumer: the...