Channeling my inner Indiana Jones
(with a little help from AI)
In a moment of forward-thinking brilliance—or possibly just impatience—I decided that planning a trip wasn’t quite enough. No, what I clearly needed was a cinematic visualisation of it.
Enter my anthropic friend.
Armed with a single, carefully crafted prompt (and a certain amount of blind optimism), I requested something along the lines of those classic adventure maps—you know the ones. The dotted line, the little plane hopping across continents, the vague sense that danger, mystery, and questionable travel decisions lie ahead. In short: full Indiana Jones mode.
And I must say… for a first attempt, I am rather pleased.
What emerged was not quite Hollywood, but definitely somewhere in the “Sunday afternoon adventure film” category—which, frankly, is already a win. The route looks convincing, the spirit is there, and most importantly, it makes the whole trip feel gloriously real… even if, at this stage, it exists mostly in spreadsheets, notes, and vague promises to “book things soon.”
Naturally, this is only the beginning.
Because once you open the door to this sort of thing, there is no going back. I can already feel the slippery slope beneath my feet: more prompts, more variations, more “just one last tweak.” Before long, I may well have an entire production studio dedicated to animating my holiday plans.
There is something oddly satisfying about seeing a future journey come to life before it has even properly begun. It adds a layer of excitement—and perhaps a touch of theatrical drama—to what would otherwise be a series of flights, hotels, and carefully timed connections.
Of course, the real challenge now is simple: making sure the actual trip lives up to the trailer.
More experiments to come. Possibly with better special effects.
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