Teleporting

Being a tourist these days is usually pretty virtual anyway. It’s hard to find anything essential because so much is there for the visitor, a mirror held up to their second hand experiences. So why bother going at all? Why not just scrabble together the few fragments of a place you’ve heard of and teleport in there for the afternoon?

So one day I just did that. I wandered around Chicago in Google Streetview. And like any tourist I had a faint list of recalled incidents and associations with Chicago that set me on a journey to find their actual locations.

And like any tourist, as well as appreciating each unremarkable place, I also appeared there, physically and pictured in that very scene as proof that I had been standing right there. A memento for Chicago of the teleporter who passed through that afternoon.

Below are the places I visited and thoughts I had along the way.

The Chicago Teleporter took place on the 11th November 2009 and was part of somethingnew