[at-l] Re: INTPs & hiking (was: Bears bags, fires,and leaving the trail)

[kellyswhitman at hotmail.com (Kelly Whitman)]

I think solo travel in any form is good for INTPs.  Our childlike sense of 
wonder is perfectly at home in travel.  Our endless asking, "Why?" is 
accepted and even encouraged!  Two insatiable needs for us, to have new 
experiences and to learn, are fed.  There's plenty around to fill our love 
of the unique and different.  We get to pursue our "What if..."s, even 
though it's a bit concrete for us abstract thinkers, it's still very 
satisfying.  And of course we have lots and lots of recharge (alone) time, 
whether it's days of hiking in solitude, or evenings spent in a hotel room, 
journalling, and processing, processing, processing.

Lastly and perhaps most importantly, it's a reprieve from the baffling and 
perverse ESFJ world.  (Maybe as a female INTP I appreciate this even more, 
since INTP is about as far away from how girls/women are socialized that you 
can get.)

Kelly Whitman
INTP
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"There ARE no other women like me."  -- 7 of 9

>Well, I'm a sucker for on-line tests and guess what?  I came up INTP also.  
>Are those some of the characteristics that make one more likely to want to 
>"take a walk in the woods"?  It had been along while since I took the MBTI 
>and hadn't thought about it for a while so didn't remember going in what I 
>was.
>
>Kent

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