Experimental tourism

I got some interesting ideas about travel from browsing my friendsfriends page, checking a link to Latourex, the founders experimental tourism (site in French).

Instead of checking off the famous sites, or whatever other sort of prepackaged travel, they have lots of suggestions for other ways to explore, such as:

• walk from the first to the last street in the city alphabetically
  
• halfway through a tourist map, draw an 'equator', and walk the equator
  
• explore the city only at night, overnight
  
• tour the roundabouts (aka traffic islands) of the city, as places for picnics, etc
  
• find a round-robin of three-syllable street names, the last syllable of one being the first of the next, and so on
  
• play a local monopoly version, using that to explore

There were others, too, some less interesting to me, some I couldn't figure out due to the currently poor state of my French.

This sounds intriguing, in a strange way rather like flash mob travel, letting in the random elements. I think I might try one of these ideas locally, just to see how it might play out. Anyone interested? If so, which one appeals?

There are lots of other possibilities, too, of course. Rolling dice to determine which direction and how far to go, or checking out streets with friends' first or last names, or choosing things randomly out of the local paper. Etc.

Thanks to Tafkar's post on friendsfriends for this, with links to a BBC article about it, among other links.

One who...

lives is a liver.
shows is a shower.
draws is a drawer.
bows is a bower.
computes is a computer.
glows is a glower.
tows is a tower.

Right?