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Expedition K2
Apr. 28th, 2009 11:30 pmThe same person who once gave me a book listing 365 things to do in order to feel great has since given me a book called 365 ways to change the world. Do you sense a theme here? Anyway, the idea for April 28 was Experimental Travel and, since I'm always up for being told what to do by a book, that's what I did.
By experimental travel, it meant doing something to see the world differently, whether you're on holidays or in your home town: going on a walk taking alternate right and left turns, for example, or mounting an expedition to K2. Not the mountain, but the map reference.
It was the trek to K2 that I undertook today. I got out my two maps of the City by the Sea (one is a street directory and the other is a tourist map) and plotted my course. I have to admit, I was sort of hoping that K2 would be somewhere near where I live, but on both maps K2 was right on the other side of the city, in the wilds of the west. So I drove rather than trekked, but that didn't make my excursion any less arduous.
The City by the Sea doesn't really have a bad area to live, but west has the industrial estate, and the meat works, and a swathe of Housing Commission homes. Which is not to say that the east (where I live) is anything special (it isn't), but the west is just a little bit more run down.
The real reason I avoid the west is that the streets there are twisted - curving and changing names and turning back on themselves - and that plays havoc with my poor sense of direction. Even with the map it took me several attempts to find both locations. At one stage, I drove down a street and passed four separate entrances to Davis Street, which doesn't seem like it should be possible.
( But I got there in the end )
By experimental travel, it meant doing something to see the world differently, whether you're on holidays or in your home town: going on a walk taking alternate right and left turns, for example, or mounting an expedition to K2. Not the mountain, but the map reference.
It was the trek to K2 that I undertook today. I got out my two maps of the City by the Sea (one is a street directory and the other is a tourist map) and plotted my course. I have to admit, I was sort of hoping that K2 would be somewhere near where I live, but on both maps K2 was right on the other side of the city, in the wilds of the west. So I drove rather than trekked, but that didn't make my excursion any less arduous.
The City by the Sea doesn't really have a bad area to live, but west has the industrial estate, and the meat works, and a swathe of Housing Commission homes. Which is not to say that the east (where I live) is anything special (it isn't), but the west is just a little bit more run down.
The real reason I avoid the west is that the streets there are twisted - curving and changing names and turning back on themselves - and that plays havoc with my poor sense of direction. Even with the map it took me several attempts to find both locations. At one stage, I drove down a street and passed four separate entrances to Davis Street, which doesn't seem like it should be possible.
( But I got there in the end )
