The other four themes are maps. This one is the walk.
The Terrain is where the theoretical work meets actual ground — a trailer build, carry-on travel, a planned Pipistrel journey, the gear that genuinely earns its place in a bag. Autonomy practised rather than studied.
The method here is still documented AI conversation, used as a thinking and research tool. But the questions are practical: what works, what doesn't, what the country actually looks like when you arrive without a fixed itinerary.
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