Junkyard Post Four Week Four

Our first apprehension as travelers, being touristy. Offsetting the pull to magnets and keychains plastered with the Pope's face or the bags with little coliseums and fountains, are we offsetting ourselves? Rome first appears to everyone as it did to me the first time last year: loud, magnificent, smack in the middle of a contemporary city. As I stare up again, Rome imposes on this piece of history and a pigeon shits on my hand.