I brought my camera to work the other day, so during my lunch break I went for a little stroll - tourist style. (: Chicago is so BLUE and beautiful! To be honest, I never liked bringing my camera into the city because I didn't want to give off an impression as a tourist. This is my house and I'm going to put my feet up on the coffee table if I want, kinda thing. But I realize that mindset is pretentious and not to mention, stupid. Because when you're a tourist, you look at the town with a different pair of lenses and you're a lot more open-minded to do things that are out of your comfort zone. Suddenly all those free, crowded events don't sound so lame, and the new restaurants popping in look enticing, and sitting in Millennium park after a food truck makes for the perfect Saturday afternoon.
My motto for this summer:
What does that mean for me? Run a 5k, attend a summer festival for a different city/state, have a picnic, make a video, go on a road trip, host a board game night, make s'mores, watch a movie at a drive-in, play sports regularly, go fishing, win free tix from a radio show, rent a bicycle for the day, purge my closet, find a hike path, run a 100 miles, frisbee on a beach... just to name a few. Hold me to it?
Being a tourist in Europe was great and so fun. But this, this is the beautiful town I live in and am so proud to call home. (: And I'm ready to unlock its secrets the same way.
What's on your summer bucket list?
XO.
Very nice! I recently concluded tourism related research. These photos remind me so much of the concepts I recently learned.
ReplyDeleteThanks! That's great to hear. I would love to hear what some of those concepts were.\
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