![]() There is no point in hurrying because you are not actually going anywhere. All that is required of you is a willingness to trudge. You have no engagements, commitments, obligations, or duties no special ambitions and only the smallest, least complicated of wants you exist in a tranquil tedium, serenely beyond the reach of exasperation, “far removed from the seats of strife,” as the early explorer and botanist William Bartram put it. When it is dark, you go to bed, and when it is light again you get up, and everything in between is just in between. ![]() The world, you realize, is enormous in a way that only you and a small community of fellow hikers know. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of conception. “Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot.
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