Evrim Tekin

Travel and expeditions

The map ends. The ground does not.

What it is

Expeditions are travel with a question. Going somewhere unknown resets attention and shows what home quietly assumed.

There is still plenty of unknown ground. Most of the ocean floor has not been mapped in high detail, and research on nature suggests time outdoors helps restore the kind of attention that daily life wears down. White Dragon, a converted campervan, is this site’s vehicle for it.

Updated 5 November 2026 · 2 sourced facts

Illustration
A generative picture of the idea; it shows no data.

Ideas to carry

  1. 1

    Novelty stretches time

    New places make days feel longer because the brain records more.

  2. 2

    Nature restores

    Natural settings give directed attention a rest.

  3. 3

    Go with a question

    Travel becomes an expedition when you go to find something out.

Established What we know

  1. Kaplan’s attention restoration framework (1995) argues that natural environments help recover the capacity for directed attention.[1]
  2. The Seabed 2030 project reports that only around a quarter of the ocean floor has been mapped in high resolution.[2]

Interpretation The older lens · Aboriginal Australian and pilgrimage traditions

Aboriginal Australian songlines are routes you can sing; pilgrimage in many faiths treats the journey itself as the teaching.

Reading

  1. 1355RihlaIbn Battuta
  2. 1949The Hero with a Thousand FacesJoseph Campbell
  3. 1987The SonglinesBruce Chatwin

Google Maps: you have arrived

Me, in the middle of a forest: arrived where?

Made in-house, for fun.

Connected subjects, projects and writing

Sources

  1. The restorative benefits of nature: Toward an integrative framework Journal of Environmental Psychology, 1995. Checked 5 Nov 2026.
  2. Seabed 2030 Nippon Foundation–GEBCO. Checked 5 Nov 2026.