The Beauty of the Unfamiliar Road

In 2016 The Guardian published an article about, the age of the digital travel planning and the guidebooks at your fingertips for the “more adventurous”. The focus is on the digital age and this new way to look at travel. 

I find myself in agreement with the options open to exploration at my fingertips, my bucket list has grown. So many unfamiliar roads are calling, so many borders to cross. There is more to see in the world than one lifetime could commit too. 

What can this world of digital travel give to you? I find that even through the simple side of Facebook and connecting with others around the world, it has opened global exploration to me in ways I could never have imaged. 

I found my first international motorcycle rental in Costa Rica by scrolling pages and googling companies. It was a glorious solo-moto adventure of navigating a new country and of oneself.

“The gladdest moment in human life is a departure into unknown lands.”

– Sir Richard Burton

There is an ease to finding your passion for travel and exotic locations and exploration. If you allow the glorious side of the digital to help plan your exploration of the world, the world becomes your playground - truly. How often do you take a screen shot of a fantastic new location that populates your Instagram feed? 

Maybe your journey will be someone else’s dream counter, you may be inspiring new generations, or reigniting old dreams in people you have never met. There is a power to the digital age of travel. 

Another way the digital world may collide with your travel is if you are also a digital nomad, the travel to outlying areas that are reached by two wheels, to sit by a beautiful river and set up your office. It is a glorious side of working from the road for sure. That and the luxury of never knowing where you might pitch your tent, or what beautiful meals you will create.

Remembering that you will still have the journey you plan, the digital age is a tool, and not meant to be used as justification for comparison, but a guide to remember to live YOUR life. Your journey will be yours and yours alone, you could take the same trip, to the same place, at the same time of year and arrive at a different outcome or experience – every single time.

Although I say this all with a warning: to let the digital age inspire yet not encompass you. It is easy to lose sight of the journey in the day and age of posting, followers, and … Be a renegade, be different, risk it and unplug – I dare you! See you out there on the road. 

Written by Danell Lynn, Guinness World Record Rider –www.danelllynn.com, 

@danelllynn Photography copyrights & Images by Danell Lynn.