“Touring” might fit the experience you had better than destination-driven. Tours are designed with predetermined stops, but that doesn’t mean that they are only focused on the destination. Try to follow a top-10 list of sights for a new museum or city versus sightseeing with a tour guide to see the difference. Plus, if you missed some stop on a tour, you probably wouldn’t deem the whole tour a failure. Increasingly, I view my activities as touring—cycling, running, kayaking, hiking—and try to plan out some stops that I can my companions can look forward to. It also hedges against bad vibes or bad conditions
What I was aiming for is that we WANTED to make it a destination-driven day, but we couldn't help making it a tour. I like that terminology a lot.
Maybe the lesson is that the tour mindset, as you say, hedges against the inevitable randomness that could derail your day if you were truly focused 100% on the outcome.
“Touring” might fit the experience you had better than destination-driven. Tours are designed with predetermined stops, but that doesn’t mean that they are only focused on the destination. Try to follow a top-10 list of sights for a new museum or city versus sightseeing with a tour guide to see the difference. Plus, if you missed some stop on a tour, you probably wouldn’t deem the whole tour a failure. Increasingly, I view my activities as touring—cycling, running, kayaking, hiking—and try to plan out some stops that I can my companions can look forward to. It also hedges against bad vibes or bad conditions
What I was aiming for is that we WANTED to make it a destination-driven day, but we couldn't help making it a tour. I like that terminology a lot.
Maybe the lesson is that the tour mindset, as you say, hedges against the inevitable randomness that could derail your day if you were truly focused 100% on the outcome.
Hope this means the toe has fully healed.
We are BACK!