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Category Archives: Expeditions
The Pre-Expedition Jitters
If you don’t get them then you’re not trying hard enough!
What to Pack for a Microadventure
It’s been more than fifteen years since I began enjoying sleeping in wild and wonderful places. I guess I’ve spent about a thousand nights sleeping outdoors. Out of all those probably only about ten have been in a ‘proper’ campsite. I’ve slept on top of England’s highest mountain on New Year’s Eve and on the [...]
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Why Do I Explore? To be Alone?
Odd choice, India, if I wanted to be alone. But being alone is an important part of journeys. Alone time. A lonely time. Alone with all of India. I feel more alone when I’m jostled by a billion strangers than I do somewhere wild and empty. I miss those I have left behind. Being alone [...]
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Why Do I Explore? Education
I began enjoying learning when I began wandering the world. No longer was I learning stuff simply to regurgitate it in hot exam halls. School on the road is different: the more you know the more you want to know. The world and knowledge and understanding all begin to fit together a little better. The [...]
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Why Do I Explore? The Three Stages of Flabbiness…
I swell with rage and decide it is time to sort my life out.
Why Do I Explore? Challenge
I don’t buy souvenirs.
Why Do I Explore? For the Struggle?
on the road it all makes sense.
Why Do I Explore? A Quest, a Purpose
The pointlessness of a quest does not matter either.
Why Do I Explore? Simplicity
The simpler things are the happier I am.
Why Do I Explore? Curiosity
Is it a blessing or a curse to be curious?
