Photographs taken of tourists proudly smiling in front of historical sites or familiar icons are not just shown, but serve as mnemonic devices for storytelling. And the tales do not merely repeat a pretour story, they embellish, privatize, and transform the master narrative. […¶] Another way tourists move beyond the pretour narrative during the tour stems from the sheer materiality of being there, engaging in the practice of the tour, enacting the itinerary, and moving through the site, be it a Maasai compound, a Balinese dance performance, a five-hundred-year-old castle in Ghana, or an 1830s Abraham Lincoln heritage site. To perform the site is to inscribe the pretour narrative within the body of the tourist.

Rabbits are lively at nightfall, and when evening rain drives them underground they still feel gregarious.

Meet me at the slopshoot On the old Wangpoo Bring along your dipnet There's enough for two. We'll have mashed potatoes And some Navy stew Meet me at the slopshoot On the old Wangpoo

Within and among populations of grindelias, some morphologic traits appear to vary more from plant to plant than in most genera of composites.