The Attentive Traveler is the home of the travel blog for Bill & Jackie Pritchard. We live to travel… we periodically feel an urge to travel somewhere, well away from familiar settings. Ordinarily these adventures are not a response to crisis, for which we are grateful, nor are they for business reasons. Our desire is not necessarily to be away from home and on the road, but to visit a particular place. Following often in the footsteps of those that have gone before us… our patron saints Fromers… Fodors… Lonely Planet… Rick Steves…we aim through purposeful attention to squeeze the feeling of a place to move past being a tourist and to become a guest and ultimately friend of that place.