"God, tourists!" We are all familiar with the shameful epithet meant to invoke images of pasty, overfed Midwesterners milling about Fisherman's Wharf, clad in SF sweatshirts and fanny packs, and desperately trying to locate the nearest Olive Garden. For the most part, being a Tourist is a bad thing. We avoid them, we don't want to be them and shun maps and asking for help, or even any type of activity remotely involving even the idea of a guided tour. But aren't most of us not from SF? The Midwest, even? Don't we become tourists anytime we travel to visit somewhere else? Should you have to go through a moral battle over whether or not to go to Alcatraz because, yeah, it might be cool, but that's what tourists do? How many of us have friends who come from all over the globe, begging to experience SF and once you send them to Alcatraz ten times, what the hell do you do with them? more ›