Destination

NOUN

destinations (plural noun)

1. the place to which someone or something is going or being sent.

   "a popular destination for golfers"

   synonyms:

   journey's end · end of the line · landing place · point of disembarkation ·
   

   terminus · station · stop · stopping place · port of call · goal · target · objective · end · purpose

ADJECTIVE

1. being a place that people will make a special trip to visit.

   "a destination restaurant"

Does one have to know the destination to go somewhere?  Lately I have come to believe an adventure does not need to be mapped out. 

Last week I had to go an hour to get fuel for my van which takes Compressed Natural Gas aka CNG.  On the way back I decided to go from Saratoga across through Manchester.  Coming across the NYS Border into Vermont.  

 

Got turned around and a bit lost, whatever that means...... How can one be lost while wandering without a defined path?  Yes, I did have an end destination though no demands on when I get there which gave me the option to "hike my own hike.   Being turned around can be un-nerving with CNG since cng stations few and often far in between and running out means being town on a flatbed since it can not be put in a can..  Since I had just come from fueling I felt more comfortable simply exploring the dirt road.

 

 In my puruising of the spaces where New York and Vermont meet we came across several covered bridges which I just love, feels .like going back in time and the craftsmenship is such that is not seen as much these days.

Old barns are also intriguing to me and were plentiful that day, the beauty in the old wood structure that harkens to a day when life was a homestead, cell phones didn't exist and people worked on land they treated with respect.   Imagining the stories of a simpler time inspires me to not get caught up in the minutia of our new realities and instead enjoy the land we were blessed with.