Adventure Magazine Feb 2020

#218
the simple art of travel
Enjoying the
sunset and
a cold one
at Badlands
National Park,
South Dakota
Morgan Massenn Redbull Illume entry 2019
Image courtesy Redbull Content Pool
I am sitting writing this at Auckland airport. The loudspeaker is calling for some
unpronounceable names that are ‘keeping others waiting and the unload procedure is
underway’. – That is such a passive aggressive statement - trying to use other 'passengers’
anger to move you along.
Most of the people you see at the airport are slightly stressed. Mothers with babies, teenagers
walking around in a confused state, older people in that same airport ‘Where am I supposed
to be?’ fog. People are wandering around in 'comfortable clothes', actually some look like their
PJs. There are people with cushions wound around their neck and others already sleeping on
the floor.
I have already picked up a passport and boarding pass and handed it to the barman – yep
it’s 10.45 am and I am having a beer. It's a bit like; if you are at the airport, all those standard
rules go out the window. That is what travel does and we are not even out of the airport yet!
Travel opens up so many doors, apart from just the bar. No one knows me here, no one can
judge me for having a beer at 10.45am, or that the lady next to me is in her pyjamas with eye
covers on her head and a mickey mouse pillow. It seems that once people are on the road
to somewhere all those conventions that hold us back seem to go out of the window and the
simple process of travel to anywhere creates a feeling of freedom, from rules, from convention,
from really caring what others think.
Travel builds us; whereas normal life can shrink us, we can’t do this, we can't do that because
of the judgement of others. We are too concerned to step outside of ourselves and challenge
ourselves. The process of travel is the ability to challenge yourself, making movement, creating
fun, finding new things, you don't know what is around the next corner, what's behind the next
door, it is all a surprise. When you travel, the unexpected is an everyday occurrence. When
you are not travelling, you can guess what you will be doing at 10.30am (probably not having
a beer) at 1.30.pm and at 4pm. That's why repeatedly travelling to the same place is not as
beneficial as going somewhere new. You don't want to make your travel experience a repetition
of being at home, or you lose some of the value.
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