About wandering and places

I really enjoy site visits as they mean endless hours of wandering. It is one of the rare occasion where wandering seems the best thing to do. To me it seems the best way to really take in a place. There is no rush, it is just you and the landscape. It does not matter whether it is urban or rural. It is also at those moments that I regret taking photographs as it breaks that magical moment of the now and the context. I rather draw and sketch then to take a photograph. I find by drawing the landscape it reveals its story. It suits the wandering spirit as it takes time and a full devotion to the landscape just like the wandering itself.
While wandering it is sometimes hard to imagine that this is a place someone or something calls home. While wandering I find myself becoming the first discoverer of this long forgotten place, but I am not. Day to day, especially in citys, people wake up in this place and live there daily lives in here, but do they really see it?