Travelers have more fun!

My husband and I travel often, many of our recent trips have been cruises. Cruising has it's goods and bads...Good, you get to visit many places during your 7-14 day adventure...Bad, you are visiting many places so you do not always get to experience everything you might like to see in any given port of call. Our goal is to make the most of the time we have. Shore excursions are for tourists, or the unadventurous. In the weeks before our travels we plan out how to see things the way the locals would...by bus, train, foot, or any other locally used means of transportation. Our most recent experience, why pay $5 per person for a cramped "bus" ride in St. Thomas when you can ride with the locals on the "$1 Bus." Same bus, different price, more memorable experience. On the "tourist bus" you'd never hear about a local's opinion of corrupt government affairs while at the same time pulling up alongside a truck of minimum security inmates returning from work duty, to have the passenger beside you hand $20 to one of the inmates, telling you he'd get it back in a couple months...it was his neighbor! On your next trip, try to be a traveler, not a tourist...you'll have more fun!