Visit the favorite hangouts of Jack Kerouac or Isadora Duncan, for instance, or go from maze to maze. Your Cyber Black Book , information when you're away from home. And Disneyland is fine, but L.A. offers its savvy visitors so much more the busy intersection of Sunset and La Cienega boulevards, for instance, where Jim Morrison lived, worked, made records and loved a certain topless bar. We live in an era when travel has become absurdly easy. Ticket booking agencies throng the Web.
Entire stores are devoted to luggage and guidebooks.
Countries that were off limits 20 years ago have turned into today's trendiest destinations, making it all too tempting to write off old standbys like London. No beach or hillside remains truly remote, untouched by tourists' feet. But the global village has a downside. When everyone has gone everywhere, then anyplace you go you're following the crowd. And that's a definite bummer for every would-be Vasco da Gama.