If it had not been for the banners and the chants and the drum beats, one might have thought they were on a guided tourist walk of the capital's best retail locations.
"Humidity is the enemy," lectured Yannick, an impish, pony-tailed Québécois who usually makes his living guiding tourists to caribou.
During long American stopovers, his temporary jobs included shifts in a canning factory and guiding tourists at Niagara Falls.
"It's challenging," said Mr. Pansullo, a graduate of the International Tour Management Institute who is trying to build a business of guiding tourists around Nerdsville.
There are no signs guiding tourists to the site, no interpretation boards, ticket kiosks, or gift shops, just a fence and a locked gate.
"This is the first time I've seen anything like this," said Ahmet Calayer, a local resident who guides tourists around the castle.
Other winery associations in the New York region have established trails to help guide tourists among vineyards in the Hudson Valley, through New Jersey and on Long Island.
Everyone has come together to express ourselves," said Kyle Biggs, who guides tourists to see penguins and battlefield sites from the 1982 war between Britain and Argentina.
He has a theory, developed during threo years of guiding tourists around the United Kingdom, that Americans would like to own any artifacts associated with historical figures.
A third, in Lisbon, will guide tourists.Mr Biderman says there is an even richer seam to be mined as people find and create their own data in real time.
