Yeah, you can't substitute knots for travel. In fact the ultimate use of them is in some place like Yosemite. But when it comes to a variety of forms of human satisfaction, it is all between the ears. When it comes to beauty, and it's ever changing forms, I (surprisingly), only have to look at my children's faces.
Then when that wears thing, and all the laughing and screaming gets too much, hit the road.