Well, I’ve finally started using my bicycle to full effect. It certainly prevents the same sort of meandering thought that accompanies walking. At least, it does in Los Angeles where there are almost no bike lanes and the drivers seem furious at your existence - if they’re even aware of it, that is. There’s more of a hyper-awareness of your surroundings. And biking home yesterday evening, from the AMC Century City at around 10PM (about a 20 minute bike ride) I noticed that there were only a few smells I kept running into across west LA:
a very aromatic sort of mushroom/fungus smells, like forest mushrooms yet I didn’t see any and have no idea what really could produce that in Los Angeles
marijuana, of all sorts of variety from the buttery smelling to the exceedingly skunky
laundry, just lots of fresh laundry smell
maybe at times, with a strong breeze, a bit of ocean air (though probably that was wishful thinking)
Either way, it’s interesting how the type and speed of movement affects the type of thought. The faster you move the less you think, but perhaps the more you notice.