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\u201cJourney’s are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships, or trains.\u201d This segment from The Art of Travel<\/span> retrospectively rings true to my personal experiences with traveling. One of the things that is most attractive to me about long drives and flights on planes is becoming freely and carelessly absorbed in thought while traveling from Point A to Point B. When driving through familiar landscapes and spotting landmarks previously seen, I can’t help but succumb to an overwhelming sense of nostalgia. Just like a familiar smell, a landmark or a specific place can open up a flood gate of memories for me. Often times, these sights can bring me back to the exact time and place in my life during which I had once discovered them. While driving past the scattered groups of windmills in California’s Palm Desert, I recall childhood memories of daydreaming in the backseat of my mom’s car while songs from a Beach Boys cassette tape blare through the stereo. As described in <\/span>The Art of Travel<\/span>, engaging another activity while in motion does indeed enhance the experience of that activity. For me, listening to music has been a constant in all of my travels. I feel that the music listening in tandem with traveling has always had a profound affect on me. I can experience my imagination infinitely unfold when listening to music while out walking, driving, or flying on an airplane. As a kid, I felt inclined to draw whatever it was I hearing or feeling in the music at that time. However, these days I find myself thinking about my own music creatively and critically. While on Spring break, I went home to Southern California and was left without a car or other means of transportation for getting around the city. Although feeling inconvenienced by the circumstance, I reveled at the opportunity to put on my headphones and have to walk everywhere I wanted to go. I walked between my parents’ houses and my girlfriend’s house almost everyday; racking up about 20 miles in total over the course of the week. I listened to music from my cellphone throughout all of my walks and along the way plotted all of the music I wanted to make as soon I got to the nearest guitar. This combined experience of traveling, sightseeing, and music listening and making is what I’m looking forward to most in my upcoming trip to New Orleans. <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Journey’s are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships, or trains.” This segment from The Art of Travel retrospectively rings true to my personal experiences with traveling. One of the things that is most attractive to me about long drives and flights on planes is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[],"tags":[99],"geo":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/musicalcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/musicalcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/musicalcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/musicalcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/musicalcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/musicalcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/musicalcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/musicalcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/musicalcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}