Traveling

[apolliana]

Makes the self smaller, more concentrated, in one mundane way since it can no longer expand to encompass one's house-as-an-extension-of-oneself. This makes it easier to get things done: it's harder to mobilize a scattered entity. ("Herding cats.") Pieces of oneself are everywhere, wherever one's stuff is.

(My favorite Dennett-isms: "if you make yourself very, very small you can externalize virtually everything," and its opposite.)