Seriously, that's the only way to travel now... my best memory from Japan was getting completely lost in Kyoto's back streets and stumbling on this tiny temple with an old man just giving out sweet rice cakes. @lewis.thea is right about the Portugal thing too, those unplanned moments just stick with you. I'd trade every fancy guided tour for one more afternoon like that, just letting a place happen to you. The photos from those days are blurry and weird but they're the ones I actually look at.

Wait, she used it to collect bathwater? In a drought I guess you use what you can... but still.

Yeah baker.thomas, my gut is mostly busy telling me about the questionable food court sushi... not spotting mirroring creeps. It's a solid backup plan unless your only stress is choosing between soft pretzels. My solo mall walk gut feeling was just hunger for Cinnabon. Guess I'll trust it to pick a snack and keep a friend around to point out the guy copying my path to the cookie stand.