Why at least once in your life you should consider taking a long journey on foot
A woman walking along England’s South West Coast Path, between St. Ives and Penzance.We were walking a stretch of England’s South West Coast Path when my wife and I stopped to marvel at the cliffs plummeting to the Atlantic, and the ancient stone wall that snaked alongside us. In a couple of hours we would come to a village, stop for soup and pints of beer, and keep on walking.
The beauty of the walking trip isn’t just that you will take it slow, but that you will wake each morning with a task at hand, a destination, and thus the truest sense of purpose. You will put an X on the map 10 or 15 miles away, and then discover a host of wonders in getting there. In that way, the journey itself contains a multitude of small destinations that you don’t know exist until you find them along the way: a funny pub keeper, a gorgeous falcon, an oracular gardener leaning on her rake.
The walk showed how a spring unfurls mile by mile and hill by hill in layers of subtlety and complexity I’d never seen before. It taught me the regional nuances of barn design and left me gaping at the remnants of our past: the stone bridges and canals and rail beds I crossed along the way. It brought me to the driveways and porches of people I wouldn’t have met any other way.
When walking over multiple days or weeks, you begin to see why the journals of slow travelers like Thomas Jefferson or Henry David Thoreau or John Muir abound with startling, tiny details, the sort of things few would ever notice now. “Saw and heard a katydid,” Thoreau notes on a trip to New Jersey. “We have seen no persimmons in any place since crossing the Hudson,” Jefferson jots on a jaunt to Vermont.
You are more open when walking, more receptive, more enmeshed in the landscape through which you pass. The Irish poet John O’Donohue had it right when he said that we should learn to walk out our door every day “with an open heart and a real, watchful reverence.” If you do, he said, “you will be absolutely amazed at what it will reveal to you.”
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