Getting lost in a new city is how you find the restaurant you’ll tell everyone about.

Efficiency and discovery are not the same project. Following the route gets you where you intended and shows you nothing else, while a wrong turn is how you end up in the place you later recommend to everybody. Most of what people love about a trip was never on the itinerary.

Leave an hour unplanned next time you are somewhere unfamiliar and walk without checking your map. Stay where there are people and keep yourself safe about it, then let the hour be genuinely aimless.