Unconventional Adventures
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·January 20, 2025UniverseHacker
Look up Beau Miles on YouTube for more in this vein of unconventional adventures.
Personally, I am a fan of exploring local waterways in the smallest, simplest boat you can find. The smaller the boat, the bigger the adventure. I recently built a folding 6 foot sailboat that I can sail with my young kid to a “distant shore” and pack up and carry home via public transport or Uber when we get there. Learning to build a boat- and traveling all around to find the right wood and materials was itself a great adventure.
Ultimately, being the first to do something only matters for recognition, something people are too obsessed with nowadays. It is just as fun to do something you’ve never done before as something never at all done before- either way it’s new to you! Don’t tell anyone about it, don’t make it a social media spectacle, just do it for yourself.
dgfitz
“Climb a mountain, tell no one.”
UniverseHacker
Exactly! Except I can't escape the irony of people saying that online- implying/bragging that they have done so- and that includes my comment above as well.
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beej71
I do a small version of this in my own town. We're surrounded by public land, and I find stuff in the lidar data that looks interesting. And then I head out cross country through the forest to try to figure out what it is. Stumble across all kinds of weird stuff along the way. I love it even though I think most people would find it boring.
UniverseHacker
What is 'the lidar data?' What kind of weird stuff are you finding?
You'd better respond to this, you can't leave us hanging with what sounds like an awesome adventure idea, but without enough info to try it ourselves!
yapyap
rather US-centric train of thought from the author, but I guess that’s to be expected when the website’s name is quarter mile
ddulaney
Can you elaborate a bit on what you saw as US-centric? At least a couple of parts of the essay were from people in the UK, but maybe there’s a non-US/UK perspective?
b59831
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I lived in Bangkok for two years. The most conventional things I did while there were Ayyuthaya (the buddha head in the roots of the bodhi tree), Hua Hin (beach town), Kanchanaburi (Bridge on the River Kwai), and Koh Samet (an island). That said:
I went to Ayyuthaya on the local train, which was more interesting than the destination. Same for Hua Hin, where I stayed in a little low-key hotel and I walked to and out on a nearly-abandoned pier. Same for Kanchanaburi where I got off a stop early and had to pay a local to drive me to the final stop, and I stayed in a low-key floating hotel in a fan room. I took a bus (and a boat) to Koh Samet and walked from one end of the island road to the other, and got to watch people playing Takraw at the police station.
Wandering is a great way to see a place.