Seek The Substantial

Photo by Louis Hansel on Unsplash 1. Ever heard of Taghazout? Me neither. It’s a small fishing and surfing village in Morocco, approximately 5,000 people. It looks like the kind of place that no one really knows about, but you know about and you go there in the winter and…

Photo by Allyson Beaucourt on Unsplash 1. Ever heard of Etretat? Me neither, but it looks like the White Cliffs of Dover, but this is actually Etretat in France, so they essentially mirror each other and the only reason I’m posting this is because I had never considered the same…

1. Ever heard of the Cameron Highlands? Me neither. It sounds like some place in Scotland, but it’s actually an area in Malaysia. It was surveyed by geologist William Cameron in 1885, hence the name, and is known for well, farming as you might guess, tea, orchards, golf courses, wildlife,…

1. Ever heard of the Banks Peninsula? Me neither. A normal photo of what it is really doesn’t do it justice, but an overhead view from a NASA satellite photograph really makes you appreciate how it just sprouts up from nothing, this huge land mass. And the peninsula is two…

1. Ever heard of Ronda? Well, Brian has, but I had not. It’s a town in Spain in the Malaga province in the Southern part of Spain, not too far away from the Strait of Gibraltar. The bridge pictured above is the Puente Nuevo bridge, 390 feet above the canyon…

1. Ever heard of Mostar? Me neither. It’s a town in Bosnia and Herzegovina and sits on the Neretva River and was named after the bridge keepers (mostari) who guarded the famous bridge above and below. That bridge was built in the 16th century by the Ottomans. I’m always pretty…

1. Ever heard of Sandwich Harbour? It’s in Namibia and this is the kind of place that looks amazing, but is probably also absolutely unforgiving. Photo by Sergi Ferrete on Unsplash 2. This guy travels to countries and he doesn’t do a 20 minute video about an entire country, he…

1. Ever heard of Wistman’s Wood? If you’ve never been to a rainfoest, you should. Or just a place where a rain forest exists, which can be in a place in the Pacific Northwest or near the equator, but it’s pretty amazing nonetheless. I didn’t know that there is a…

1. Ever heard of Labrador? Well, there’s a decent chance that you may have as it is in Canada and it is the place where the Vikings landed in item 2 below. Photo by Erik Mclean on Unsplash 2. Via SyFy, by using the knowledge of solar flares and the…

1. Ever heard of the city of Ulm? It’s in Germany and it’s the beginning of the journey from link #5. Photo by Luis Fernando Felipe Alves on Unsplash 2. Via Wired, a guy read every Marvel comic and then wrote a book, All of the Marvels, which appeals to…