1. Who are you?
My name is Ryan. I work for a non-profit. I’ve written a lot about movies. I started an online magazine with a friend (www.omakasemag.com). I volunteer with some small businesses on their marketing. I like to be outside. I made a movie last year.
2. Where are you now?
I am at my home in Grand Rapids. For context, Detroit is about 3 hours east, Chicago 3 hours west.
3. What do you do when you’re not traveling?
Normal people things, I guess.
4. What was the last piece of music you listened to?
“Far Nearer” by Jamie xx. After the new xx album came out last week, I went and dug into some of the Jamie xx singles I hadn’t heard before.
5. Tell us briefly the travel story you shared in LOST.
I talk about this in the piece itself actually (how meta of me), but simply put, I had a journal of sparse notes written after I spent a month in London back in 2011 that I was always simply too lazy to go back and do something with. By the time I finally felt the tug to put a piece together, it felt too boring to simply fill in the information as a diary, so instead I wrote on the process itself of revisiting old trip notes and how we each remember trips after we return home.
6. What do you love about travel?
I suppose being the outsider is always fun, no matter the destination. In my view, there’re too many places in the world to see to not travel, if you have the ability to.
7. What do you hate about travel?
It would be a bit too cliche to say “coming home”, and to be quite honest, I’ve not usually found that to be true. Oftentimes, my brain is so linked in with the trip schedule that I’m mentally “ready” when it is time to come home. But I think the worst part would be the next day, when you realize you’re really home, back on the grind.
8. Do you like to travel alone or with people? Why?
I know saying “both” is cheating, but both. I’ve had a few work trips that I went on by myself and had a lot of fun exploring on my own at the end of each day. But going on trips with my wife, sharing meals and finding curious hikes, is probably my favorite.
9. What do you think about during travel?
FOOD. The best way to travel is to start each day by planning out the meals—you can fill in activities between food after that.
10. Any future travel plans?
I kind of traveled all over the US over the last two months (NC, UT, WA, CO, VA, MA, TX, SC) so I actually a have a bit of a break ahead of me. I’ll be doing some kind of a backpacking trip in Michigan’s upper peninsula near Canada in a few months (if the snow is manageable), and after that I may even be moving (which is kinda like permanent travel, no?)
1. 你是誰？
我叫Ryan。在一個非盈利機構工作。我寫了很多關於電影的文章。我和朋友開始了一個線上的雜誌 (www.omakasemag.com) 我也誌願為一些小型商業機構的市場部做一些工作。我喜歡走出去。我在去年制作了一部電影。
2. 你現在在哪？
在 Grand Rapids 的家中。往東3小時路程到底特律，往西3小時路程就到芝加哥。
3. 你不在旅行時平常會做什麽？
我想就是普通人做的事兒吧。
4. 你最後聽的一首歌是什麽？
Jamie xx 的 “Far Nearer”，在 Jamie xx 上周出了新專輯後，我去挖了一些過去沒聽過的他的單曲。
5. 用一段話，簡單地告訴我們你在《LOST》分享的個人旅行故事。
我分享的這篇文章本身（我是多麽自我指涉啊）實際且簡單地指出，我有一本稀疏記著筆記的日誌本，它是在我2011年用一個月時間在倫敦旅遊後記錄下來的，我總是很懶，以至於到後面都不會再去回想或做些什麽。等到我終於想要把那些回憶拼湊起來的時候，卻覺得太無聊以至於像填充日記本上的信息，因此我寫下了重新翻看旅行筆記的過程，以及當我們返回家中後，我和筆記本是如何回憶那些旅程的。
6. 旅行最讓你喜歡的是什麽？
不管目的地在哪裏，我想做一個局外人總是很有趣的。在我看來，這個世界有太多地方可以去看，讓你沒辦法不去旅行，如果你有能力的話。
7. 旅行最讓你討厭的是什麽？
聽到“歡迎回家”總是會感覺有點太老土，而且老實說，我通常並不覺得有回家的感覺。通常地，我的大腦都能和我的行程安排做很好地聯接，即要回家的時候，頭腦已經做好了“準備”。但我想最糟糕的部分還是在第二天，當你意識到你已經真正地在家，回到地面上了的時候。
8. 你喜歡獨自旅行還是跟朋友一起？為什麽？
我知道如果說“都喜歡”可能像騙人的，但是是都喜歡。我經歷過一些獨自完成的工作旅行，在那些日子的每一天，我都能從探尋自己身上找到很多樂趣。但是和妻子一起旅行、共享美食、尋找新奇的遠足地，可能還是我最喜歡的。
9. 旅行時經常會想到什麽？
食物。旅行中最好的一種方式是計劃外出就餐——在那之後，你可以在美食之間填充上各種各樣的活動。
10. 接下來有什麽旅行的打算嗎？
在過去兩個多月的時間裏，我基本上旅行了整個美國地區（(NC, UT, WA, CO, VA, MA, TX, SC）因此接下來會有一小段休息的時間。幾個月後，我將
在加拿大附近的密歇根半島做一次類似背包旅行（如果大雪可以應付的話），在那以後我可能會搬家（有點類似永久的旅行，不是嗎？）
