From the moment I got off the bus? Was just walking around. Walking around this little town that I’d never been to before, that I knew nothing about, and that I hadn’t bothered to look up in any guidebook. And I just walked, and if I saw a shop that looked interesting I went inside; when I got hungry, I picked a restaurant; if I got tired, I found a place to sit down. And not once—not the whole day—did it occur to me to wonder if I was welcome. It just didn’t come up. The world let me be.
It's 2023 and I still feel this way.
