Tourism Is Beginning to Resemble Mass Hysteria

I sat yesterday and watched a woman who was clearly suffering from the early signs of heatstroke; she was pale, barely sweating, weak, and had just vomited, but as she told the CNN reporter, “I have wanted to see the Parthenon since I was a little girl. I am going to see it.” The temperature fluctuated between 100 and 110 depending on whether you were in the shade or the sun. Her husband was cheerful, and they seemed relieved to be on camera. It would become part of their big trip to Greece if this woman didn’t die before returning home to the U.S. I asked, “What the hell is this woman thinking about? Are those goddamn rocks worth it?” Don’t get me wrong. I am a traveler. I know how to travel and have explored many of the main cities in the world. That said, I have never been to India, any part of Africa, or South America, and as much as I would like to go to those places, given all that is going on with climate change, I probably won’t make those journeys. <a href="https://brian-kean.medium.com/tourism-is-beginning-to-resemble-mass-hysteria-89cc0f356031">Website</a>