A new philosophy for travelers called digital silence, to avoid sharing exactly where you were, via Kottke:

We have stopped traveling to feel. We now travel to prove we were there.

Only wish this was a blog post and not a series of Instagram photos.

@manton There’s been a fair bit of discussion of the ethics of geotags in both hiking and photography arenas that I’ve seen. In my area, the Blue Pool has been substantially impacted by photo-driven visitors, to the point where the Forest Service plans to build a new parking area and shorter trail.

@manton @manton There’s a related debate about wildlife photos - some people are so obsessed with getting the perfect bird shot that they ruin the habitat or spook the critters beyond recovery.

@manton Seems to me that the medium undermines the message.

@manton 😳🙄

@manton I’ve started traveling with a sketchbook and pocket paint set. Sometimes when I stop to sketch (rather than to post photos) others around me do, too. davoh.org/2025/03/0…

@manton oh, I wish I’d seen this before my vacation last week. I posted a few times about my trip to St. Croix but I felt odd about it. Even had a conversation with myself about how I use Micro.blog as a type of personal journal. Thanks for the reminder: digital silence, look up and around.

@ayjay Indeed.

@davoh That’s great. I used to have a little watercolor travel set… I need to try it again.

@manton if you do, I’d enjoy seeing your slow paintings (as opposed to your fast instagrams of very instagrammable sites.)

@manton No change from behavior since dawn of photography. Parents took photos of what they saw while traveling with one of them in every picture to prove they were there. I always thought that was crazy, took beautiful photos of things we saw & individual photos of each other (& later children) to make a photo record of our travels. Now digitizing film photos 1973-1999 & photos that matter are ones with us in them. Scenery & buildings change over years, people just age 🙁