why I don't go on tours

Ah my friend, you have just said it all when you said you will not be treated like cattle or a child on a tour. 

This is why I never signed up for a tour at any convention, be it ACB or NFB.  The closest I came to a tour was a NAC demonstration back in 1973 in New York City.  But it's any tour, blind, sighted, seniors or children..  The nature of a tour is to herd folks along.  Shuffle, shuffle, stop, look, listen, shuffle, shuffle...and so it goes right up until we are prodded and pushed back onto the bus.  And always there are a few late arrivers.  And always there are one or two who decide that the tour sucks even before the tour bus gets rolling.  And it never fails but what someone gets lost or decides to take another look around, holding the tour up and forcing folks to shuffle twice as fast in order to make up time.  It is the nature of all tours. 

How well I remember the big tour buses in Hawaii.  Most of them were filled to overflowing with Japanese tourists.  The bus would roll into the parking lot.  The doors would fly open and the tourists flowed out as if they were one body.  "Click, click", the cameras snapped over and over as the crowd moved as if they were tied to one another.  They would rush this way, "Click, click", and dash that way, "click, click", and just as suddenly, "Whoosh!" they were sucked back into the tour bus, the door slammed shut and away they went. 

 

Carl Jarvis