On Exploring

 In my medical device marketing days (8 years of it post-college), I traveled often for work. As the years went on, the free afternoons in a new city became less and less frequent. Longtime readers might even remember – I would write about doing an overnighter in Rochester, New York (from SF!) just to turn back around 2 days later to Louisville. The miles racked up professionally, but the last thing I wanted to do with my time off was to get on a plane (again). I would say I traveled a lot during those years but I didn’t explore a lot. Which is a very different thing I’ve realized. When I  did manage to get away on vacation, it was very likely a...