Spirituality and sexuality both enter in; the great walkers often move through both urban and rural places in the same way; and even past and present are brought together when you walk as the ancients did or relive some event in history or your own life by retracing its route. And each walk moves through space like a thread through fabric, sewing it together into a continuous experience—so unlike the way air travel chops up time and space and even cars and trains do. This continuity is one of the things I think we lost in the industrial age—but we can choose to reclaim it, again and again, and
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