The Goal of Place in Time

Travel is the love song we sing to this wide and wonderful world.

I grew up traveling, and it has become a bit part of my identity. I feel most at home when I am exploring somewhere new, seeing what I haven’t seen before, and experiencing the new. I am rather fortunate to have had these opportunities, and continuing opportunities to see more of this extraordinary planet we all call home. I want to share what I have seen on my journeys because they are places that deserve to be seen and experienced. In particular, my family taught me the specialty of quick trips to places on “power trips.”

Power Trip (n.)- A short trip to a local, typically lasting no more than a day or two that intends to act as a “best of” tour with the goal of seeing as much as possible in a limited time.

Power trips make a lot of sense to me in relation to a fishing metaphor. When you are young, fish around at many different spots and see all you can so that you can figure out what you like. As you grow older, go back and thoroughly enjoy the spots you love. While this isn’t a perfect metaphor (I certainly make return trips to places I quite enjoy), it does bear some truth in that I want to see as much as I can. Power trips also make sense in modern life, where both time and money are in restricted budgets. I fall victim to this myself at times. But I do my best to get out and explore when I can. This is where “Place in Time” comes in.

The expressed goal of "Place in Time" is to share my personal experiences doing the thing I love the most, seeing the world.

With this goal, there are a few notes. These reports are my personal experiences and will reflect how I like to travel.

How I Like to Travel

• Cost Effectively: These trips are designed to not break the bank, but there are times when something must be experienced at a higher cost. I try to balance my budget with opportunities whenever I can.

• Walkable: point blank, I hate driving and will avoid it whenever possible. Therefore, when traveling, I do my best to avoid it. The trips I post about will require taking transit, walking, biking, and basically any other form of getting around except driving if at all possible. I do recognize that some of my trip experiences are not going to be accessible to differently able people and I will do my best to notate alternative options or comparable experiences for those requiring accommodations and using assistive devices.

• Getting there: For full disclosure, I am an airline employee and therefore fly for free/greatly reduced fares. Flights can be expensive, I recognize, so I will try to offer alternative travel methods where possible.

• Running v. Relaxing: I am not one to sit still, especially when traveling. I would rather be out exploring a city or wilderness than relaxing on a beach most days. My trips reflect this, and 9 times out of 10 my trips will leave anyone, myself included, exhausted but accomplished at the end of the day.

These trip reports are going to be my personal stories, how I lived and enjoyed them. Therefore, I will not write at length about something I have not done, and will especially not write about it like I engaged in it when I didn’t. I will not recommend a product or service I do not use and enjoy. All of my trips reports are my expressed opinions and do not reflect those of any company or organization. When I recommend a product or an experience, it is because I truly enjoy it and want to share it, not because I am being paid to do so.

My goal with this project, in addition to the previously stated goal above, is to post at least monthly a trip report. There may be additional posts along the way explaining a component of travel or a tool that I like to use in my journeys, but the primary goal is to post different reports that will encourage those who read them to go and find their own paths and make new memories.

We have this beautiful world to explore, let’s do so.