that 30-minute boat ride truly made the world feel big,

No it felt tedious and a waste of my time. Thirty minutes when I could be doing other things. WOs flight paths are loop de loop de loop...the shortest distance between two point sis a straight line.

But forcing that to happen one time for a set number of locations might help the world feel big.
So now its more than one 30 minute waste of time? What do you suggest i do in that 30 minutes?

Hard pass.