A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere travels on the ground sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it and has a hard time and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing.
Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel...
There's no need to travel further. The Los Angeles area is big enough for us.
If I've got food and water as long as I can exercise my mind and keep it nimble then I'll be okay.