Travel as Place Making

Though travel (within contemporary means) is not necessarily the only problem within detaching sensorial experiences, as a lack of depth within architecture itself lends also to the disconnect. I believe travel does however have some take in developing ones mental image of place. For example, if I was to leave my house and travel by foot from St. Petersburg to the school, the very physical connection that attaches me to the ground pulls me into the sensorial experience within the space. My encounters/participation/and communication with the environment forces me to understand the environment to transgress through, this in turn creates a specific sense of place through the journey of physical contact. But however, if I instead chose to take a detour, and travel by automobile than this lends to a different kind of sensorial experience, one that pulls me off the ground and carries me through in a much more quick and fluid manner; minimizing the details and personal encounters that I would otherwise have, to a vast landscape of forms I am only able to perceive. Within automobile travel, there exist a different experience, one that requires attention to the road ahead and behind and not the places that we cross in between. In the end, I feel there is something to say about how one can be wedged between two lanes of traffic and bounded by concrete barriers and light post; making, at no point, any physical contact with the ground we wish to journey through that defines place solely by its full disconnect from place. In turn the lack of tangible experience of place (by automobile), makes for a different definition in place.

Would you say that a disconnecting sensorial connection can be lost to our own swift movements through place?