Your tiny box is certainly "something strange", well done!

always in anticipation of what would come next, thinking that there would be something more interesting at the next stop

It can be difficult to know when "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" but, unlike with some other parts of life, with urban walking you can usually revisit a might-have-been, so you could go and investigate one of your nearly-dids or maybe walk from one to another?