From the moment I was able to stand on two feet, I became a walker. Growing up in a rural area with an infrequent bus service, walking was not only a means of getting from A to B, but also my recreation. Walking opened my world, yet by the time I was eleven, it was also an escape, a time to think, to recalibrate myself after school. “I only went for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in,” wrote John Muir, the legendary naturalist, mountaineer, and environmentalist. Even as a child I understood the notion of “going in”.
Much has been written about the physical, emotional, spiritual, and psychological effect
