Summer 23

He did not think of himself as a tourist; he was a traveler.
The difference is partly one of time, he would explain.
Whereas the tourist generally hurries back home
at the end of a few weeks or months, the traveler,
belonging no more to one place than to the next,
moves slowly, over periods of years,
from one part of the earth to another.

-The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles