Using the force
Drive to adventure in your own town.
difficulty:
2
price:
variable depending on gas
what's it good for:
Well it is good for making a trip to someone's house a total adventure complete with success cheering and a sense of acomplishment like getting to the top of a mountain.
how it works:
I get some directions to somewhere I have never been. I look at the directions and try to imagine driving them. Then I leave the directions at home, relying only on your own skills at memory and navigation to get you there. The exciting part is getting in the car without the directions in hand. Whoooa you are a madman you might say!!!
Well it is true. The sense of adventure starts as you leave the parking lot: destiniation- unknown. You drive towards the place you think you know where you are, but then you only remeber that the street you need starts with "W". Is it Washington or Walnut? That is the exciting part. You drive around "feeling" your way and then when and if you find your destination you feel like you found the lost city of atlantis. You sit in your car knowing that you are the modern day equivilant of the great adventurer Megellan...YOU HAVE FOUND YOUR FRIEND's HOUSE without a MAP!!!! You are awesome, a virtual human compass. You make shirts saying...Maps are for sissies.
Other bonuses outside of the sense of accomplishment in what would otherwise be a mundane task, you have a great story of how you got there (even if you got lost), you see and really "know" that place because you paid attention to every detail. You also get a different sense of direction and learn lessons that will help you in the future. Such as, when driving in the country street names are much less important than Farm to Market Hwy numbers, so if i see Washington st is also FM 1992, I will memorize the FM 1992 b/c that is what will be posted on signs. You would never know that until you did it wrong once.
warnings:
Adventures work best when you wife is not waiting for you, or it is a really important meeting or something. Also being alone in the car is best b/c if you are "using the force" with others in the car it can be really annoying to have to put up with their lack of hometown adventure appreciation.
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difficulty:
2
price:
variable depending on gas
what's it good for:
Well it is good for making a trip to someone's house a total adventure complete with success cheering and a sense of acomplishment like getting to the top of a mountain.
how it works:
I get some directions to somewhere I have never been. I look at the directions and try to imagine driving them. Then I leave the directions at home, relying only on your own skills at memory and navigation to get you there. The exciting part is getting in the car without the directions in hand. Whoooa you are a madman you might say!!!
Well it is true. The sense of adventure starts as you leave the parking lot: destiniation- unknown. You drive towards the place you think you know where you are, but then you only remeber that the street you need starts with "W". Is it Washington or Walnut? That is the exciting part. You drive around "feeling" your way and then when and if you find your destination you feel like you found the lost city of atlantis. You sit in your car knowing that you are the modern day equivilant of the great adventurer Megellan...YOU HAVE FOUND YOUR FRIEND's HOUSE without a MAP!!!! You are awesome, a virtual human compass. You make shirts saying...Maps are for sissies.
Other bonuses outside of the sense of accomplishment in what would otherwise be a mundane task, you have a great story of how you got there (even if you got lost), you see and really "know" that place because you paid attention to every detail. You also get a different sense of direction and learn lessons that will help you in the future. Such as, when driving in the country street names are much less important than Farm to Market Hwy numbers, so if i see Washington st is also FM 1992, I will memorize the FM 1992 b/c that is what will be posted on signs. You would never know that until you did it wrong once.
warnings:
Adventures work best when you wife is not waiting for you, or it is a really important meeting or something. Also being alone in the car is best b/c if you are "using the force" with others in the car it can be really annoying to have to put up with their lack of hometown adventure appreciation.
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posted by Brady at 1:48 PM
1 Comments:
I love it! I have accidentally left my directions at home and completed one such task as this before. It is quite liberating, and I do actually end up feeling like quite the successful explorer! :]
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