A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

by Bill Bryson

Even an interstate highway, with its cloverleaf interchanges and parallel roadways, looked benign and thoughtful, like the illustrations you used to get in children’s books in my boyhood, showing an America that was busy and on the move but not too busy to be attractive.

there is one thing the AT teaches, it is low-level ecstasy—something we could all do with more of in our lives.