Travel Lightly
3 min readMay 12, 2019
I’d never thought much about tourists before I moved to a vacation destination spot. I’ve lived in cities that are destinations, sure — Paris, Montréal, and Boston come immediately to mind — but somehow cities are able to absorb extra people, be they long-term or short-term immigrants, in ways that small towns cannot.
I’ve even written for magazines and other publications aimed at the tourism/vacation trade; but, again, didn’t…