I steer my life by intuition. That includes my traveling.
Often I pull off the main road to take a less traveled road.
I make stops along the way, led by curiosity or being tired of drone of wheels on highway.
Nothing like a good road trip, I always say. Just ask my kids.
As a single mother of three, I made cross-country treks of hundreds of miles routinely. To visit their father. Or other relatives. If I needed a nap, I would pull off the road. We found the coolest places off the beaten path. One time I decided to do my drive from upstate New York to Oak Ridge, Tennessee differently. We took the road through the Shenandoah Valley. It was breath-taking. After hours on the road and all of us needing a break from the car, I saw a sign for "New River Gorge National River." God bless the national parks! Curious about why it was "New", I followed the signs which led to this bridge.
A tremendously beautiful place.
An undiscovered country.
What if I had never stopped?
What if I was so driven to get where I was going that I passed this beauty by?
What if I had been tied to a schedule?