Travel, like any valued effort, demands knowledge, skills, specalty tools, useful papers & for success .... analogous to knee surgeon's training, experience, patient consult, lab reports & x-rays, & computer-assisted tools.

Ignore money & health safety risks, choose wrong clothing, wander aimlessly without purpose, lose your passport and you waste your great adventure's opportunities

Tourist & traveler difference? 1st trundels blindly after guide, insulated from responsibility, absorbing little, skipping superficially past all nuance while a traveler's equipment, legal docs & detailed, flexible itinerary combines prior study to achieve on-site nuanced exploration, achieving satisfaction fullfilment beyond what that had imagined.

“A goal without a plan is just a wish.” , Antoine de Saint-Exupéry