Lockdown wanderings as an antidote to habit
4 min readMar 25, 2021
Human beings are nomadic creatures. For 99% of our existence as a species, anthropologists believe, we’ve been on the move. Some scientists have argued that a propensity for travel, novelty and adventure is actually encoded in our DNA. Either way, we don’t take well to confinement.
When the world shut down in March 2020, that’s exactly what we got.