All of us have a bit of the explorer within us. Whether you need to explore the neighborhood or make it your career, this blog has you covered. From packing your backpack to get your next project funded, the globe is at your feet. Let’s go!
Find a space to explore. This could be a hidden door in the trail, the woods, a house, or just the neighborhood. There is always the newest stuff to be found even in the most original of places.
• Feeling adventurous? What does the Earth have to serve your explorations? Do you live close to mountains, a forest or the jungle? If it’s possible, venturing into this unmapping territory – just make certain you’re prepared for the particular hurdle every differ terrain presents!
Packing all your stuff in a backpack. You would require the water bottle, few snacks, a pen and notebook, a compass, a flashlight, and whatever else may be useful for the particular trip.
• Again, every trip calls for different stuff. If you’re going to camp out for the entire weekend, you would require camping gear, a tent, and sufficient water and food. If you’re just going for the afternoon, you could travel a lot.
Invite a friend along. Having a second human would make you feel safer ‘’and’’ you two could support each other – two sets of eyes are twice as powerful (and twice as fast). You might also require another set of hands to climb trees, be on the lookout, or just to keep track of directions and notes.
Wearing clothes appropriate for where you explore out. Climb through the woods in the backyard? You’ll need tennis shoes and pants to get through the dirt and to protect the legs from the brush. Explore the beach? Bringing boots for the sand, and don’t forget the sunscreen lotion!
• Make certain your buddy understands what to wear, too! If they become miserable as they’re not preparing, they might blame it on you.
If essential, having a map of the space you explore out. The last thing you need is to get lost and to turn the adventure into an emergency. You’ll also need to see where you’ve been. and be able to retrace the steps when you need to recreate the awesome experience.
• If there is not a map of the space, make your own! It’s fun, and makes you feel like a real explorer. You could make your own map of a space that is already mapping on the paper by adding extra details.
Study up on your surroundings. It’s a great idea to understand what’s normal, what’s not, and to identify what signs Mother Nature is offering you. Read up on weather signs, star constellations, and plants, and always have a compass going in the head, too. Imagine going into a foreign nation for the first time.
Set up camp. Exploring is more fun when you have more time. If at all possible, picking a spot to call out “exploration headquarters.” If you could go overnight, great! Setting up the tent in a nice, firm, even spotting of ground away from some visible animal roosts. From there, considering a some of the following activities:
• Animal tracking
• Plant, insect and animal identification
• terrain and Rock studies
• Digging for fossils or older relics
Read, study, and talk to other humans. Knowing you need to be an explorer isn’t enough. You need to understand what’s out there that could utilize exploring. Study up on the knowledge and geography of other cultures. Talking to other humans about their places and experiences they discover interesting. The more you understand, the more you’ll identify exactly what you need to do and the more prepared you would be to do it.
Join societies and groups devoted to exploration. Look into joining the Royal Geographical Society, the Explorers Connect, Explorers club, and Travelers Club (if you’re a bicyclist, of course) to pad the reputation as an explorer. These groups would not only be ability donors to the future explorations, but they’ll also be full of humans that would be invaluable resources down the line.
Be okay with humans calling you mad. Most humans’ reaction to, “I’m going to spend the next year living on the banks of the Congo river with the pygmy humans!” is going to be, to put it lightly, critical and disbelief judgment. They may think you’re insane, and that’s okay – most explorers are a tiny bit crazy. But they’re definitely pretty boring!
Be the survivor. There’s no question about it: wherever you go, you’re going to be in some sincere uncharted space. You’ll likely be alone in a kind of situation you had not experienced before. How would you manage? With surviving skills, of course.
