Slow travel reconnects spatial awareness

Taking a multi-day Amtrak journey forces the brain to process the true physical scale of geography, unlike the teleportation-like abstraction of air travel. Disconnecting from speed lowers cortisol, much like how Digital clutter induces background anxiety.¹

Footnotes

1. Macfarlane, R. (2012). The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot. Hamish Hamilton. ↩