Comment by HansardExpert

It's a nice bit of prose but I am struggling to see what this has to do with boredom.

Staring out of window looking at scenery is for all intents and purposes doing something. This isn't even close to the silly pre-oocupation with 'raw dogging'. Being in a place (even if it is only in your mind) that brings you peace as you describe it above is not boredom. There is no tension to be doing something else, at least it doesn't sound like it.

I can sit in a room in the dark lying on the couch staring at the ceiling (that I cannot actually see) and stay like that for hours - I am absolutely 'doing' nothing but I am also absolutely not bored.

So I don't think 'hitting the road' is as you put it 'embracing boredom at all' it simply doing something else.

The next time you feel like hitting the road, don't. Stay at home and be truly bored.