Physical Geography has evolved to become a highly productive mainstream natural science, delivering on the metrics required by the accounting systems dominating the neoliberal University. I argue that the result has been: (1) a crisis of over-production (of more articles than we are capable of consuming); (2) a risk of under-production (growing scarcity in our ability to produce the research questions needed to sustain our productivity); and (3) a disciplinary fix involving either pursuit of the problem-solving implicit in the neoliberal impact agenda or creative destruction, aligning ourselves less with geography and more with the natural sciences. Using Isabelle Stengers' critique of 21(st)-century science, I argue for a slowing down in Physical Geography, by changing how we relate to the subjects that we study. I use the ideas of William Bunge to discuss the notion of geographical expedition as a means of achieving slow science, even if expedition is a term to be used cautiously. I illustrate these points from one of my own projects to show how slow science may allow creation of those moments that might lead to a more creative and critical Physical Geography centred on the very curiosity that makes being a scientist so interesting.