There are streets ten minutes from your house you’ve never walked. Start your travels there.

Familiarity is not the same as knowledge, and the area around your home is the clearest example. You know the three routes you use and treat the rest as accounted for, when most of it you have never actually seen. Distance is not what makes a place interesting, attention is, and attention is cheapest close to home.

Walk somewhere near you that you have never walked, with no destination and no map open. Go slowly enough to read the signs and look up at the buildings. An hour of that produces more new impressions than most weekends away.