Blog entry from Alastair Humphreys about recreating, on a micro scale, the epic adventure of traveling from the N to S pole... but doing it on his "local" map. The posting contains lots of very funny photos he took of nature and trash that he found along the way. And the first paragraph (and the last) links it to having quests in life in order to add flavor, to wake you up.
Following on from my triumphant bagging of the Seven Summits of my Neighbourhood, this month I set out to travel from the very north of my local map to the very southern point. It’s an arbitrary journey, but then again planting a flag in the middle of a vast white expanse and declaring ‘job done’ isn’t necessarily the most sensible of pastimes.
The point of this little adventure was to force me out the front door, to do something different in the slender margins of free time that we have available in our busy lives, and as a way to discover new places close to home, even after a whole year exploring my local map.
But, as I’ve often thought, it does not really matter where you go. It matters only that you go.
This was a tiny little outing. But I enjoyed spinning the wheels through lands new and familiar. And having even an irrelevantly arbitrary goal to head for added a small extra element of fun.
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