If life is art, the trip is a masterpiece. The pre-planning is an important component of the trip, which makes us enjoy it long before we started it. During the planning process, we are actually one step in the journey, with all that it means for the daily routine. The real journey is a journey to the imaginary land, because imagination is always a journey.
We often lack a guiding principle when planning a trip. Imagination takes us somewhere else, without really knowing what we want. The future traveler finds himself drifting, but he is dissatisfied with this escaping imagination. He needs a map. Each trip must include an accurate map, with a drawn path, stations, and schedules. The means of transportation, the attractions and the places of rest must all be included in the invitation to the trip, and they must also be displayed graphically.
The map of the trip is regularly carried on the garment during the trip, as the most loyal companion. The traveler takes it out of his pocket at every opportunity, not to know his location, but to ascertain whether the journey in reality matches the journey to the imaginary land he had planned in advance. Are the places suitable for what he thought about them, and whether he can produce the right inspiration. The inner self gets a gentle push, which pulls out of balance, and causes a healthy daydreaming movement. If the route is chosen carefully, it evokes a well defined poetic dream. The map of the trip, followed by other maps and dry data, are tools in pursuit of a seductive dream. We strive to realize our dreams during the trip, and it is a key opportunity in life to reach the threshold of their realization.
This is why the meaning of the journey is very different for different travelers who make the same route. They want to find something new in what others seem to think as ordinary. They load, sometimes too much, their expectations of the trip, and there is no power in the world that might prevent them from being sucked into it. This is also because the actual trip is in unfamiliar roads, and there are many dangers in it. Unexpected events, planned and unplanned, occur on every trip.
The map of the trip is therefore a road story. A story in which every path and every place is interwoven with far-reaching descriptions. The story of the road becomes, after the trip, a life story. This is done through storytelling. After the journey, loaded with experiences and pictures, the traveller tells about the trip as part of the important sources of his lives, and do it as a storyteller, while carefully preserving the balance between the real and imaginary.
Woman engrossed in reading a trip map in the middle of the street
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| Tourist map of China with famous attractions |
