TRAVEL is unRAVELing

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Travel is a form of meditation. It focusses the mind. When you arrive somewhere you have your tasks laid out before you. There is no time for dillydallying. Where are you gonna sleep? How are you gonna get there? What are you gonna eat? Those are the first and most important questions that are raised. Everything else is periphery. Having those core requirements clears the mind of all other thoughts.



Once you are settled down and evaluating the worthiness of your hostel/hotel/couchsurf, only then may you be able to reflect on the true nature of the new surrounds that you find yourself in. Appreciate the subtleties, acknowledge the differences. Understand the adaptation that is required in your own mind to encompass your new environment. My first aid to really getting to grips with the situation is to take the higher ground. LIterally. I would find the nearest lookout tower, or observation platorm and get a lay of the land. Have an idea of how extensive the settlement is that you find yourself in. This is the best way of removing those intitial daunting feelings of unmanageable explanses of space beyond your capacity to fully encompass.



If there is no set timetable, and a well planned trip should never have one set in stone, then one may peruse the opportunities that are available and allow the circumstance to guide you as to which direction you will take. Obviously, financial, temporal and logistical factors must be taken into account, but be flexible and always realise that the best times often come at a moments notice.



As with all types of meditation, it may take some time to get into the zone. Only very seasoned practioners will be able to dive staight into a blissful state upon landing in the unknown territory. But with continued diligence, and persistent striving, an equanamitous state will be possible at even the most impromptu of novel escapades.

Climb that mountain, plunge that depth, part those jungle fronds and battle on through! Seek that fest and throttle the jest out of every last strand of adventure that lies in wait!

Travel is not an activity to be partitioned, compartmentailsed and iterated in a thousand segments of fun. It can only be gorged at with a dessert spoon with sloshings and splatterings catching your shirt, all as part of the process. It cant be controlled, it must be let go off, in only the best meditative way you know how. Only then will the results be visualised and fully partition the strands holding your sensibiliies together, and with a breeze of freedom and unstoppable expanse of what all the world entails - Unravels your mind.

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