If you’re a regular visitor to We Are Explorers, you probably identify with the Explorer archetype to some extent. According to Carl Jung, the archetypal explorer’s life goal is to pack as much experience as possible into one lifetime.If you’re digging this, then we’re digging you. We think being an explorer is less about charting never-before-seen territory and more about pushing your own boundaries and going somewhere that’s new and exciting for you. This is the essence of our doable microadventures and why we’re into encouraging ordinary people to get out the door to explore.Still, for some of us this idea of being a traditional explorer, a pioneer, tickles something deep in our soul — some kind of ancestral desire to see what’s beyond the next horizon – maybe even the echoes of a survival drive to find a better place than this.In some ways this may work for the greater good. If we view a place as untouched, perhaps we are more likely to want to keep it pristine. This might be part of the reason why we get so mad when litter has been left behind or forests have been logged. We want to maintain the illusion that we were the first ones there.However, most of the time, blinding ourselves to the reality — that the places we explore have a rich history that spans way beyond our own experience of them — will just make our experience less layered and interesting.