Well making a trip evokes many things not just a series of photies. --
I wuz ere with white van in the background!
Places of interest and the history of the areas on the way with deviations of exploration.
Is it going off topic on your trip from say Alaska to Punta Arenas to say that a local search of where King Atahualpa was executed by Francisco de Pizzaro and committed genocide of the Inca peoples in the 16th century?
Possibly rummaging about in some local museum reading texts of the time?
Enrichment of knowledge perhaps.
The same can be said of in search of Alexander the Great!
Having spend years in the Baghdad evenings consuming books by ancient Greek/Persian Arab writers you conclude I must go there! See this see that !
A side trip then from Baghdad to Alexandria in a Landrover doing a project, meant a tip to El Alemein and the Commonwealth war graves, seeing the battle field where Montgomery defeated the Afrika Korps & Desert Fox Fox Rommel!
Of course much of Rommel's Mil Kit was abandoned in the Cattarah Depression but getting permission from the Egyptian Gov would be an expedition just by itself. A side trip perhaps !
My main objective was to get to Whaddie Siwa notable for the Auricle of Ammum /Siwa mentioned by Heroditus and forced marched there by Alexander in Arrain's writings.
Arrain wrote that two snakes led the way!
In my case these "two snakes" were the Egyptian Army desert patrol rogues who wanted wanted
"backshish why-yed " for the permission to get there.
So to conclude a trip means much to those who participate in it and it hopefully its not like those hideous guided American tours to Europe of the 70's -Oh no! Not another cathedral/castle or its Thursday it must be Rome we are in!--lets have a photo!
Carry on trucking!
But stop & smell the coffee --if it has cardamom in it -its Arab! And you have detoured via Arabia, God in heaven!
Dennis