Originally Posted by
markbb99
If I happen to enter a restaurant full of Rick Steeves' guidebooks on the tables I'll leave - you'll have no choice but to overhear hoards of American's banal conversations as they eat in their new tennis shoes and white socks purchased for especially for their trip.
Steeves tells you exactly how to be an American in which ever country you're visiting.

if I enter any restaurant and find it full of people with guidebooks, or now the only slightly stealthier tourists consulting iPhones and iPads, I leave