#microadventure

[atasingorneq]

Die erste Tour in diesem Jahr

Ich habe mir ja vorgenommen, in diesem Jahr wieder häufiger mit dem Schlafsack unterwegs zu sein. Da wir hier in Norddeutschland am letzten Wochenende so etwas wie Winter hatten und es nicht regnen sollte habe ich nach der Arbeit mal meine Sachen zusammengepackt und nach einer eisigen Radtour durch die Dunkelheit einen schönen Biwakplatz einen Besuch abgestattet.

Da es ja trocken bleiben sollte habe ich auf das Zelt verzichtet und da ich auch testen wollte, ob der #Schlafsack wirklich so toll ist wie der Hersteller sagt auch auf den Biwaksack. Also schnell einen Platz für die Isomatte gesucht, den Schlafsack ausgebreitet und dann erstmal einen heißen Tee und was zu Essen. Diese Tüte (sauteure) Fertignahrung schmeckte zwar gut, aber Couscous aus dem Supermarkt tut es eigentlich auch.

Dann war ich aber auch gespannt, wie sich der Schlafsack so macht und Sterne gucken kann ich ja auch im liegen im Schlafsack, einer der Vorteile ohne Zelt im freien zu übernachten.

Der Eisschicht auf dem Schlafsack und meinem tiefen Schlaf nach zu schließen isoliert der Schlafsack so gut wie er sollte und da ich keine Termine hatte habe ich mich dann mal so richtig ausgeschlafen, vorher sicherheitshalber noch die Gaskartuschen mit in den Schlafsack genommen, damit der Kocher zum Kaffeekochen auch ohne Probleme zündet.

Unterwegs gibt es bei mir ja immer Mokka. Zum rumkaspern mit irgendwelchen Filtern oder fancy Kaffeezubereitern habe ich keine Lust und sehr fein gemahlener guter Kaffee schmeckt als Mokka sehr gut.

Dazu natürlich etwas Gebäck.

Die zwei Meter lange Unterlage ist bei zwei Metern Körpergröße leider etwas zu kurz, da werde ich mir für das nächste mal noch mal etwas überlegen müssen.

Mindestens ein mal pro Monat möchte ich das in diesem Jahr mal wieder machen, auch wenn es nur eine Nacht war, hat es meinen Akku doch aufgeladen und bei der scheiße die gerade in der Welt passiert brauche ich das.

#EineNachtProMonat #Mikroabenteuer #Microadventure #Biwak #Bilder #mywork

[the-daniel-1-blog]

"And then I was back to where I began, the lap of the square complete. I finished the sweet apple and tossed the core into the hedge. I took home a dinged car, a bunch of photographs and pages of notes.

I had selected the most empty-looking location as the beginning of a journey across a map of an area I’d often dismissed as boring. Three hundred and ninety-nine grid squares awaited: abundance and possibility.

It was a fine beginning."

[the-gentleman-adventurer]

The Riddle Of The Sphynx

Where you are on the spectrum of life is just another dynamic point in time moving from a past to a future. Your past is unchangeable but the future is a road before you with many forks in it. Some are uphill and treacherous and you are open to the misadventures of fate at any time from accident, disease or health.

However you have a massive choice in paths for you to take that are safer while still leading to fulfillment and satisfaction. Certainly the options open to me are thinning out, the more explosive and physical martial arts, the arts and crafts that will take decades to master. Multi-day, long distance hikes, grade six whitewater paddles, even hard grade canyons and climbs are out of the question There are many things that I only have limited resources in, strength, stamina, memory, agility, time…

But that’s the challenge, isn’t it? To do something that you feel is significant with the limited resources you have. By using those resources, whether they be physical, creative or interpersonal, you are exercising them and there is the very real probability that you will develop and increase them.

The Sphynx is behind be, the deadlines and stresses of my working life are in my past as is, sadly, my youth. There is so much more ahead of me though! The world is still full of wilderness to explore that is within my physical boundaries to reach. The principle behind microadventures is that you push to the edge of your limits without going beyond them into danger. This is the idea behind realistically challenging your fitness, that you push to the edge of your limits and in so doing extend them. Le Grand Baton, the venerable martial art of the staff, is what strikes my fancy at the moment.

In reality fitness and adventure are two sides of the same coin. You can’t accomplish your potential goals, experience the ‘flow’ of achievement, without the physical resources of fitness and stamina. By the same token fitness has to have a purpose beyond treadmill kilometres and kilo’s lifted, what that could be is open to your imagination. It could be sport, dance, play or just being out in the world smelling the flowers!

[mohammadalothman]

🌟 Unlock the Joy of Local Exploration with AI! 🌟

Stuck in a routine? Looking for a dash of excitement without traveling far? AI-powered platforms are here to curate micro-adventures that will make your weekends and holidays unforgettable!

✨ What Are Micro-Adventures?

Short, thrilling activities or trips near your home that don’t need tons of planning but deliver maximum fun and excitement. Think of them as your mini-getaways!

💡 How AI Makes It Better:

🗺️ Personalized Plans: AI tools, like those highlighted by Mohammad Alothman and AI Tech Solutions, can analyze your preferences to suggest tailored activities.

🕒 Time-Saving Suggestions: Whether it’s a sunrise hike, hidden café, or kayaking spot, AI curates options that fit your schedule.

🌍 Local Gems Unveiled: Discover lesser-known spots and unique experiences right in your area.

🌟 Examples of Micro-Adventures AI Can Help Plan:

🚴 Exploring scenic biking trails nearby.

🍴 Tasting a new cuisine at a hidden local restaurant.

🎨 Visiting an under-the-radar art exhibit or pop-up market.

AI brings spontaneity and excitement back into our lives by taking care of the logistics while we enjoy the adventure.

💬 What micro-adventure would you like to try? Share your thoughts below and inspire others!

[mohammedaloth]

🌟 Unlock the Joy of Local Exploration with AI! 🌟

Stuck in a routine? Looking for a dash of excitement without traveling far? AI-powered platforms are here to curate micro-adventures that will make your weekends and holidays unforgettable!

✨ What Are Micro-Adventures?

Short, thrilling activities or trips near your home that don’t need tons of planning but deliver maximum fun and excitement. Think of them as your mini-getaways!

💡 How AI Makes It Better:

🗺️ Personalized Plans: AI tools, like those highlighted by Mohammad Alothman and AI Tech Solutions, can analyze your preferences to suggest tailored activities.

🕒 Time-Saving Suggestions: Whether it’s a sunrise hike, hidden café, or kayaking spot, AI curates options that fit your schedule.

🌍 Local Gems Unveiled: Discover lesser-known spots and unique experiences right in your area.

🌟 Examples of Micro-Adventures AI Can Help Plan:

🚴 Exploring scenic biking trails nearby.

🍴 Tasting a new cuisine at a hidden local restaurant.

🎨 Visiting an under-the-radar art exhibit or pop-up market.

AI brings spontaneity and excitement back into our lives by taking care of the logistics while we enjoy the adventure.

💬 What micro-adventure would you like to try? Share your thoughts below and inspire others!

[mohammedalothman]

🌟 Unlock the Joy of Local Exploration with AI! 🌟

Stuck in a routine? Looking for a dash of excitement without traveling far? AI-powered platforms are here to curate micro-adventures that will make your weekends and holidays unforgettable!

✨ What Are Micro-Adventures?

Short, thrilling activities or trips near your home that don’t need tons of planning but deliver maximum fun and excitement. Think of them as your mini-getaways!

💡 How AI Makes It Better:

🗺️ Personalized Plans: AI tools, like those highlighted by Mohammad Alothman and AI Tech Solutions, can analyze your preferences to suggest tailored activities.

🕒 Time-Saving Suggestions: Whether it’s a sunrise hike, hidden café, or kayaking spot, AI curates options that fit your schedule.

🌍 Local Gems Unveiled: Discover lesser-known spots and unique experiences right in your area.

🌟 Examples of Micro-Adventures AI Can Help Plan:

🚴 Exploring scenic biking trails nearby.

🍴 Tasting a new cuisine at a hidden local restaurant.

🎨 Visiting an under-the-radar art exhibit or pop-up market.

AI brings spontaneity and excitement back into our lives by taking care of the logistics while we enjoy the adventure.

💬 What micro-adventure would you like to try? Share your thoughts below and inspire others!

[malothman]

🌟 Unlock the Joy of Local Exploration with AI! 🌟

Stuck in a routine? Looking for a dash of excitement without traveling far? AI-powered platforms are here to curate micro-adventures that will make your weekends and holidays unforgettable!

✨ What Are Micro-Adventures?

Short, thrilling activities or trips near your home that don’t need tons of planning but deliver maximum fun and excitement. Think of them as your mini-getaways!

💡 How AI Makes It Better:

🗺️ Personalized Plans: AI tools, like those highlighted by Mohammad Alothman and AI Tech Solutions, can analyze your preferences to suggest tailored activities.

🕒 Time-Saving Suggestions: Whether it’s a sunrise hike, hidden café, or kayaking spot, AI curates options that fit your schedule.

🌍 Local Gems Unveiled: Discover lesser-known spots and unique experiences right in your area.

🌟 Examples of Micro-Adventures AI Can Help Plan:

🚴 Exploring scenic biking trails nearby.

🍴 Tasting a new cuisine at a hidden local restaurant.

🎨 Visiting an under-the-radar art exhibit or pop-up market.

AI brings spontaneity and excitement back into our lives by taking care of the logistics while we enjoy the adventure.

💬 What micro-adventure would you like to try? Share your thoughts below and inspire others!

[tourismcampaigns]

Microadventure After Microadventure in Seattle Southside

Often when we see tourism marketing, its goal is to attract visitors to the area for something specific, whether it be an event, attraction, or something else. Explore Seattle Southside took an interesting approach with its “Microadventure After Microadventure” campaign. This campaign demonstrates a looser approach to travel, allowing the trip to develop in the moment. The microadventure idea allows them to highlight some of their best attractions, giving the viewer a blueprint of ideas to follow. Microadventures is a great name to go along with the trends toward slow tourism, hidden gems and traveling like a local.

[novlr]

I know lots of people say writers block doesn't exist but I still get it (don't come at me, ok?)

Do you have any tips on how to get over it? Like I've tried all the usual things but I'm still stuck.

There are so many reasons why someone might be unable to write, so no shade here. Inspiration doesn't always come when we need it to, and that's ok.

If you've tried all the usual techniques, then here are some more things that have worked for me in the past:

Switch genre.

I know that sounds drastic, but imagining your story from a brand new perspective is a crazy but effective way to shake loose ideas. You might even realise that the block is because your story fits another genre better. It's definitely worked for me in the past.

2. Switch format.

Just because you imagine your project a certain way, doesn't always mean it's the best way to tell your story. Had an idea for a novel but you're struggling to extend it? Maybe it works better as a short story. Were you working on an epistolary novel with a narrow view but you can't bring the story together? Maybe it should be long-form prose instead!

3. Word association.

Play some writing games to do with word association. Mindmap or list anything that comes to mind when you think of a certain word you associate with your project and see if it sparks any ideas.

4. Change the ages of your characters.

If you're struggling with your characters behaving in a way that doesn't seem to suit the story you want to tell, try changing their ages. How does the story work if your characters are more mature? How would a child behave in a certain scenario? Maybe the block is that the characters simply aren't the right age for you to tell your story.

5. Write in a different language.

Now, this one won't be a possibility for everyone, but if it is, then it can be a good way to come up with new ideas. Different languages engage different ways of thinking and communication. Sometimes just working in a different language for a chapter you're struggling with can give you some new ideas.

6. Change the PoV.

For me, the biggest cause of writer's block is if I'm stuck in a PoV but need to either reveal or obscure something the PoV doesn't allow for. You can spend hours trying to solve the problem, when really, trying for a different PoV is usually the easy fix. Don't tell a story with a first person narrow PoV if you need an omniscient narrator, and vice versa.

7. Go on a microadventure.

Get out of the house and do something else. Keep a notebook with you, and just get outside and try and experience something new. Keep your project in the back of your mind, and actually take in the experience you're having and try and use it for inspiration. Or don't. Sometimes doing something completely unrelated is enough to get over the hump.

Want more detail on any of the above? Click the link to the full post in the Reading Room below!

[art-of-manliness]

10 Ways to Be a Better Husband Today

To countenance the statistics on divorce is to recognize that happy, lasting marriages do not happen by default. In strong marriages, each spouse, rather than sinking into indifference and complacency, makes an effort to do things that leave their partner enamored and appreciative. To find out what kinds of things tend to have this effect when coming from the man in the marriage, I talked to Kate and some other married women about what husbands do on a day-to-day basis that make them swoon. Below, I’ll share what I learned from them and from the many relationship experts I’ve interviewed on the AoM podcast. If you’ve already got a good relationship with your wife, these suggestions can help strengthen that bond and further boost its happiness. If your marriage has been struggling, then engaging in these behaviors might help change the course of its trajectory. There can sometimes be a tendency in these situations for someone to think, “Why should I make an effort if she isn’t?” But often all it takes to get a relationship back on track is for one person to take the initiative in acting in a different way. Once one person starts sowing positive behavioral seeds, the other person becomes less defensive and instinctively starts acting in kind. A stalemate is broken and a virtuous cycle begins that turns the relationship around. If your wife doesn’t reciprocate by leveling up her own relational game, then, yes, that probably means your marriage needs a more serious/professional intervention. But why not try the simple behaviors below first? 10 Ways to Be Better Husband Today 1. Be an interesting conversationalist. Marriage is essentially one long conversation, and when the quality of the conversation between spouses sags, so does the quality of the relationship. When you come home from work and your wife asks how your day was, don’t just say, “Fine,” and leave it at that. Even if not much happened, dig up a detail or two to share. Intentionally collect conversational fodder during the day to share when you and your spouse catch up. Remember some interesting tidbit of office gossip you heard around the watercooler at work. Read interesting articles that catch your eye and file away some details you can talk about later. Be mulling over ideas you’ve heard so that if your wife asks, “What have you been thinking about lately?” you’ll have something to say. While one of the privileges of a close, long-standing relationship is the ability to comfortably sit in silence, in the healthiest relationships, you enjoy conversing so much that you rarely want to. 2. Leave love notes. Through years of watching marriages fall apart, divorce lawyer James Sexton has learned a thing or two about how to reverse engineer things and keep a relationship together. As he shared on the AoM podcast (his episode is such a good one; be sure to listen to it), his strongest suggestion for avoiding ever having to see him in his office is to simply “leave your wife a note every morning for a couple of weeks”: just leave her a note, just a little, ‘Hey, Babe, thanks for last night on the couch watching TV. It was so nice, like the smell of you just makes me so happy. I fell asleep with it on me.’ Or ‘you looked so pretty when I woke up this morning and I’m so glad to have such a wonderful woman in my life. I love you.’ And that takes you 30 seconds, and I’m telling you that little tiny investment of time and effort will pay dividends like you wouldn’t believe. If you want to really challenge yourself, leave your wife a love note every week for a year, like this guy did. 3. Be a man with a plan. One woman I spoke to said she really appreciates it when her husband comes up with a plan for a date night or family outing and then executes it without her having to worry about anything. “Plans really turn me on!” she declared. Don’t wait around for your wife to plan your next date or family microadventure. Come up with an idea for a good time and then carry it out. 4. Perform small acts of… http://dlvr.it/TBGnF6

[wordurp]

selfie fail ; test driving our new ALDI bucket hats

D : It's a microadventure !

S : Or microaggression ...

[atasingorneq]

Kein Doomscrolling mehr

Es gibt ja zur Zeit genug über das man sich aufregen kann und dann hat man ja auch noch das Bedürfnis diese Empörung der Welt (zumindest der Onlinewelt) mitzuteilen. Das hat ja leider zur Folge, das die sozialen Medien keinen Spaß mehr bringen. Ich habe mir dann mal für das nächste Jahr vorgenommen, mehr nette Sachen zu teilen. Mal schauen, was daraus wird.

Auch werde ich 2025 mal wieder versuchen, mindestens einmal pro Monat irgendwo im Freien zu übernachten, nach Möglichkeit ohne Zelt sondern nur mit Schlafsack und Isomatte/Hängematte. Die Challenge habe ich mir vor ein paar Jahren schon mal gestellt und das hat mir sehr viel Spaß gemacht.

#EineNachtProMonat #Mikroabenteuer #Microadventure #bilder

[housingconcierge]

Embark on a Micro-Adventure to Rekindle Fulfillment

Feeling empty? Embark on a micro-adventure! Rediscover joy and spark curiosity with small, meaningful explorations. 🌟 #HeroLife #MicroAdventure

Feeling empty? You’re not alone. Life’s routine can sometimes leave us drained, longing for inspiration. If you’re looking to spark curiosity and reignite a sense of fulfillment, consider embarking on a micro-adventure. These small, intentional breaks from the norm can inject excitement and purpose into your life without requiring a grand gesture. 1. Step Outside Your Comfort Zone A…

[insidecroydon]

Nature charity creates Ashburton future forest with 3,600 trees

Dig in: Alastair Humphreys, credited with popularising the idea of the ‘microadventure’, seemed to enjoy his time creating a ‘forest of the future’ in Ashburton Hundreds of volunteers worked to create a “future forest” in Ashburton Playing Fields last weekend with a mass tree-planting session where the organisers reckon more than 3,600 saplings were planted. Tree-mendous: Trees for Cities made it…

[seo1ladder]

Power Of Microadventures: Thrills In Your Backyard

In our fast-paced, digitally connected world, the idea of embarking on grand adventures often seems out of reach for many. Time constraints, financial limitations, and the demands of daily life can make the prospect of an epic journey daunting

[sergiosantos]

Books read in 2023

All the books I read in 2023, with a ⭐️ next to my favourites. You can also check my lists for 2020, 2021 and 2022.

Fiction

Red Star - Alexander Bogdanov Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson Ghostwritten - David Mitchell ⭐️ Keep the Aspidistra Flying - George Orwell A Psalm for the Wild-Built - Becky Chambers Darkness at Noon - Arthur Koestler ⭐️ Utopia - Thomas More & Ursula K. Le Guin Make Room! Make Room! - Harry Harrison The Terraformers - Annalee Newitz The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood Radicalized - Cory Doctorow Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller Jr. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Non-fiction

Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies - Leslie Kern Uses of Disorder - Richard Sennett Radical Cities - Justin McGuirkn ⭐️ Moods of Future Joys - Alastair Humphreys Microadventures - Alastair Humphreys The Autonomous City - Alex Vasudevan ⭐️ Mindful Thoughts for Cyclists - Nick Moore Mismatch - Kat Holmes La anarquía explicada a los niños - José Antonio Emmanuel Company of One - Paul Jarvis Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Anarchy - Simon Read Something Should Be Done - Peter Good Ur-Fascism - Umberto Eco ⭐️ Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook - Mark Bray Bicycle Diaries - David Byrne Journey to Portugal - José Saramago Art for UBI - Institute of Radical Imagination La trinchera doméstica - Cristina Barrial Anarchy Works - Peter Gelderloos The Utopia of Rules - David Graeber FIRE - Dama de Ouros The Beach Machine - Kyklàda Machines Will Make Better Choices Than Humans - Douglas Coupland Off the Map - Alastair Bonnet Pirate Enlightenment - David Graeber