Thought it would be a good idea to test out walking shoes. Good research? Walked an hour and a half in crocs - 'sueded Alice' shoes - proven before on walks, but getting old. Blister 20 minutes into the walk so the testing of 'how to protect a blister without a bandaid' was the next bit of research. A $10 note folded up worked well with occasional adjustments but best of all was a new leaf. Nice and soft, didn't slip, no adjustment needed. (Note to self - pack bandaids in pockets - or foliage - customs permitting. Second note to self - test out other shoes.)
Love the idea of information at the ready. Previous trips have been blessed with minimal stress by much collecting and organising of relevant facts bound in a book kept conveniently within reach. Accommodation, time of arrival, phone numbers, transport timetables, directions, where to next - a page dedicated to each stop. Dates and days are a blur without 'the book'. Started said 'book' today - up to page six.
Found maps, pictures of accommodation, points of interest, currencies and summarised it all onto a page per place. Feel like the places are familiar already and we will be revisiting.
Learned how to draw our route on a map using photoshop and have a better idea of the scope of the journey. Such cultures! So many adventures to be had.
While the internet had made this job so easy, the musty atlas was beside me to remind me of my sense of reality. Cyberspace and hyper-reality is all to familiar and deceptively easy and convenient - but travel - the stuff of childhood dreamings and imaginings is found in the detail, the slow and deliberate musings over the scrawly lines of faded pages, savoured best when leaves are held together with twine, remembered well when the land is seen in the mind's eye nestled between those countries, near that sea, talked about, imagined, studied on rainy days. Research benefits of the day......dig out the books and turn a new leaf.
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