Design Principles aren't rules. They're filters.

When curiosity is alive, and everything feels interesting at once, it helps to have a few quiet filters to return to. Something to help you stay open without becoming scattered, and to help you decide what's actually worth following... and what can wait.

There are four. Here's the first one:

Leave Space for Surprise

Expansive travel works best when not everything is planned.

Leaving space in your schedule, attention, and expectations allows something unexpected to meet you.


Reflection prompt: Where could I leave more room for something unplanned to find me?

A note from Tracy

I want to share a bit more about this design principle because it is the one most alive for me right now.

I think of these as filters rather than instructions.

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Inside the full guide: three more design principles, three experience experiments, a space for discernment, and a Continuum of Expansive Travel approaches.

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