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“Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs." - Susan Sontag

I once sat next to a lovely older couple on an airplane. They were very dignified, well dressed, full of manners and properness.

After takeoff, and the captain had turned off the seat belt sign, they reached into bag they had stowed under the seat and pulled out several large photo albums. (This was back in the 80's before smart phones with cameras.)

In another bag they had a good amount of photo envelopes filled with recently developed pictures and they set to work, lovingly and meticulously putting all the photos into the albums.

I couldn't help but notice that all of the pictures were the same.

They were all of them standing in front of the sign announcing the important location they were visiting; Yosemite Valley, the Redwood Forests, The Grand Canyon, Monument Valley, plus numerous others from around the West.

For each location there were three pictures. One with him standing in front of the sign, one with here standing in front of the sign and one with both of them standing in front of the sign. In each they were immaculately dressed. They were obviously not hiking on any trails.

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