#microadventure

[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!

[traumwandler]

I might just head for some remote place in the woods and sleep in the trunk of my car. That‘s exactly the kind of microadventure I need right now.

[saltwaterandstars]

JOMP BPC - 26th July - Non-fiction

This is a cool little book that has lots of ideas for exploring and engaging with your (relatively) local environment in different ways - microadventures to use Alastair Humphrey's term. For example, marking a circle round your home on a map and then walking or cycling the route of the circle; or, if you commute to work, picking a place (town, bit of woodland etc.) somewhere along your commute route to stop and explore.

There are lots of ideas in the book but they basically boil down to different combinations of: being physically active in ways that are not typical for you, doing things to break up your usual routine, choosing routes or journeys that take you through different bits of your local environment, paying attention rather than being on automatic pilot, and occasionally doing things that are a little out of your comfort zone. There are quite a lot of ideas in the book that I can't do because of health issues/physical limitations, but some I can do (and have!), and some I could adapt quite easily to suit my needs better. I know this book won't appeal to everyone, but I dip into it when life is starting to feel dull and monotonous and I want to wake myself up a bit.

[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 ...

[ahoneesan]

more wintertime streemp!

gonna stream some more mario n luigi this night! headin to hoohoo hooniversity and get even a lil further than that! fun! chill vibes! microadventures! tonight at 9pm!!!!!!

[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

[torley]

New brand identity and campaign is designed to reflect consumers' post-pandemic desire for "microadventures."

[georgiaeveritt]

Project Inspiration - Similar Projects

16.10.23

Seattle Southside - shrinking attractions into typography

One Twenty Three West agency developed dozens of logo iterations based on real-life attractions "microadventures" in the region.

"Tourism marketing is oversaturated with photography that can lack a sense of distinction and real identity." - Jake Lim

[altour]

The Future of Travel Entertainment: Immersive Experiences and Digital Innovations

In this guest post, we delve into the ever-evolving landscape of travel entertainment, spotlighting the innovative approaches by agencies like Altour Travel Agency. The travel industry is currently witnessing a seismic shift, with travelers increasingly seeking immersive and transformative experiences. Digital innovations, ranging from AI-driven recommendations to virtual and augmented reality, are redefining how we explore and engage with our destinations. The rise of digital nomads, the surge in microadventures, and the increasing preference for solo travel illustrate the blending of work, leisure, and personal growth. Furthermore, sustainability and eco-consciousness are making significant inroads into how we choose our travel entertainment. As the boundary between the traveler and the locale blurs, travel entertainment is not just about the destination but the journey and the stories we weave along the way.

[ashutoshraja47]

Jetsetter Diaries: Unveiling the Rise of Microadventures

In a world where time is a luxury and wanderlust knows no bounds, a new trend has emerged that caters to the ever-evolving spirit of the modern traveler – the era of Microadventures. Say goodbye to the notion that adventure requires weeks of planning or grand expeditions. With Microadventures, you can unlock thrilling experiences in just a few days, and we’re here to unveil this exciting travel…