I once sat in a café in Rome and watched a stream of tourists walk past a 400-year-old hidden courtyard because their Google Maps told them the “Top Rated” gelato shop was two blocks further. They were so busy following the blue dot on their screens that they forgot to look at the city in front of them. In journalism, the best stories are never in the press release. They are in the “off-the-record” conversations in the hallway. Travel is the same. If you only see what the guidebooks tell you to see, you aren’t traveling; you’re just verifying someone else’s opinion. 1. The Power of the “Wrong” Turn The…