Do you jackals know I write for Blurb? Have for over a decade. Not sure how many of you even know Blurb has a blog, but we do. I just wrote this piece. Basically, it’s about doing instead of watching. Watching is a curse of the modern world; the modern online world is perhaps the worst abuser. Watching ain’t doing. Doing takes effort, and most of the time, it means leaving your screen behind. In this post, I write about my cousin Bard. This dude. Where do I start? Just one of his trips goes beyond what most of us will do in our lifetimes, but that’s okay. He’s the last guy to brag about anything. He just goes. He does. When I think about what I’m doing or want to do, I think of him. I know he would go, like Eddie. Today is the first day of the rest of your life. What are you going to do?
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The next worse thing to watching is thinking. Doing rules!
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Don’t think…FEEL.
Water doesn’t change to fire, no matter how many times you tell it that being fire is better.
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What? Who told you that? I need to rethink some things…
Let met me tell you a Short Story, bust first, I need a Coffee . .
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Coffee first, always.
Ditto Thomas!
My significant other and I have very different goals when we travel together. She likes to see everything she can, She has a checklist and a schedule. I just want to photograph people and things along the way. I have no checklist and no schedule.
I recently finished planning a road trip. She asked me where I would be going. I said “East”… I thought she was going to lose it.
That’s exactly how I think. I often head to a train station and have no idea which way I’m going to go until the next train arrives. I let it decide.
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Love that.
Me too, Sean. On a birthday, my partner had prepared a complete program of activities during the whole day. I said: “I just want to relax, not going from point to point stressed by the time”. We went to the village harbor (we lived in an island in the Stockholm archipielago back then), caught the first ferry to the last island it went, and spent the day taking photos. Wonderful.
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Sounds like we could all travel together.
Jon, Sean, Eduard – now there are (at least) four of us!
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Five!
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Jon, you sound like me.
I remember the guy in front of me in the airport in Habana desperately using the airport wifi to use Instagram after his holidays in Cuba. Obviously, the Internet was slow, but he spent full 10min pressing the “like” button on photographs that hadn’t even loaded and moving to the next one. It was like was on a social media cold turkey. I agree with John and Sean, I used to plan extensively my travels, although I’m pivoting more into putting some pins in the map and roam fluently between them.
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Physical addiction. That’s the truth, but no one caught in this web wants to admit it.
There’s a tv program here in Japan called “Travel Darts” (Darts-no-Tabi). They put a map of Japan on the wall, throw a dart at it, and go to wherever it lands to talk and interview the locals.