In between places One of the strange things about traveling is how disconnected you are from the traveling aspect of it. Think about it. You get onto a plane, sleep for a few hours and voila! You end up in a completely different place. It was a fascinating aspect of the whole moving around process.

Then watching the part in the Truman Show where they talked about how they drugged Truman while they do a set change so that Truman would actually end up somewhere new gave me the jeebies. Sometimes, traveling does feel like that for me. In a plane, going to somewhere new and exotic. Its kinda magical how everything changes after you spend some time in an aluminum crate. Surreal in fact. You don't get the sense that you have traveled very far.

It was a different feeling during MSTD. Onboard a ship, you see the scenery passing by you. Not so much in the open sea but more pronounced when you are near the coast. Especially considering that we had to do navigation onboard the ship so while we may have the physical sense of traveling, we could see it in the progress we made on the charts. Seeing the coordinates changing on the screen and plotting new positions every five minutes, marking our progress through the shores of Australia. At least there was the sense of movement you know?

File under whimsical.  ¶ 10:41:00 pm