Guerrilla Touristing

By Adam O’Brien

"And if you look to your left, you'll see Michael Jackson's private penthouse" (image courtesy of Gap Travel Europe).

10. Pretend you don’t speak English.

9. Tell tourists you live nearby, make outrageous claims about sights (i.e. “this statue was donated by Freddie Mercury”).

8. Meet someone new and completely reinvent your life story.

7. Walk into a barber shop, tell them to go nuts.

6. Follow a group of German tourists for 30 minutes; see where you end up.

5. Try a new kind of meat.

4. Take a rock/cobblestone/brick as a souvenir.

3. Watch local T.V.- dub over with your own plot and dialogue.

2. Make friends with a native. Ask them to show you the version of their home they want you to see.

1. Get in a cab, tell the driver to take you $20 in “that” direction, walk back to the hotel.

Adam O’Brien is a third-year student at New York University studying English literature and anthropology. He is from Long Island, New York.