2021-03-06, 06:45 PM
Well I'll tell you something, young man 
When I spent five years of my youth wandering Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, I learned that there will always be more places to go. So you'll always have motivation to get out and see something. BTW I bet I'd enjoy meeting your mother, probably a kindered sprit.
But there is also something to be said for knowing a place deeply. Every year, when I start organizing a spring trip to DV, I say to myself, "Well we've been going there for more than 30 years and certainly we could revisit places if I can't find new ones." Then I do a bit of research, look over old trip folders at the ideas that never happened, and quickly I've got twice as many good candidate hiking days than we'll have there!
When I spent five years of my youth wandering Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, I learned that there will always be more places to go. So you'll always have motivation to get out and see something. BTW I bet I'd enjoy meeting your mother, probably a kindered sprit.But there is also something to be said for knowing a place deeply. Every year, when I start organizing a spring trip to DV, I say to myself, "Well we've been going there for more than 30 years and certainly we could revisit places if I can't find new ones." Then I do a bit of research, look over old trip folders at the ideas that never happened, and quickly I've got twice as many good candidate hiking days than we'll have there!