Researching locations you may be visiting

…Traveling and sightseeing and exploring can be as active or…as passive as you want, and I don't mean physically active.…Obviously, it's a very physically active thing to…be moving around the country or the world.…What I'm talking about is more internal.…I'm sitting here in Palo Duro Canyon in the Texas panhandle.…It's a beautiful spot, and it's a place I've been…to once before, and I, I was just passing through and…I camped here for a night. I was really plagued by flies.…

That's about all that I remember, other than remembering that it was very…beautiful and a, and a place that I wanted to come back to.…I hate planning a trip.…Honestly there's nothing.…I like thinking about the gear that I'm going to…take, which probably says something about my innate nerdness.…But I, reading a travel guide is just…about the most boring thing that I could imagine.…So I tend to not learn that much…about a place before I go there.…And, from experience, I know that sometimes that doesn't serve me very well.…Not just in terms of practical things,…