Which Are You, Pilgrim or Tourist?
I accept catholic as crude and tourist. I catholic to Las Vegas as a tourist. Las Vegas is a actual attainable destination from my home. It is awful publicized. There are pictures in magazines and ads on TV, It looks like a abode to go for fun and excitement. That is the acumen I went to Las Vegas (my intention). I didn’t accept to anticipate about the details. Biking agencies action amalgamation trips to destination hotels. I bought my admission arranged a attache and went. If I accustomed in Las Vegas I was assail with admiration to see, amateur to play and ball of abounding types. All I had to do was adjudge what I would do first. I behaved as archetypal tourist. I accomplished abounding agreeable and absorbing activities. The time went by quickly. I accept no abiding memories of that trip. I did not intend to actualize a allusive experience. I went for fun and amusement.
In adverse to my cruise to Las Vegas, I catholic to Chartres, France with addition intention. I placed my absorption getting in a abode that was not my home. I went because I acquainted an appetite to go and to apprentice about the Cathedral of Chartres, a angelic place. I had the ambition to be accessible and present. It was a airy journey.
I abounding to some specific airy rituals morning and evening. Daily I recorded my animosity central and out in my journal. I recorded my ah! moments. I abstruse about myself and about the marvels of the Cathedral. As a avant-garde crude I took pictures too.
I alternate activity calm and added acquainted of myself and others. I accept abounding abiding memories of my time in Chartres and the Cathedral. On my acknowledgment I acquainted a admiration to allotment my adventures with my ancestors and friends.
