It's amazing how many of them have been walkers. Some explorers have fit all those categories. Thoreau, John Muir, Johnson and Boswell, Bertrand Russell, Colin Fletcher, George Borrow, John Hillaby, the Lake Poets . And in pleasant environs, walking is a world of vistas, flowers, birds, trees, shade, sunshine, sky, clouds, good conversation, brainstorms, resolutions. Walking also must account for the long life expectancies not only of little old ladies in running shoes, which are probably the best walking shoes, but also of Spaniards, who walk to their schools, jobs, bars, meals and sexual assignations.
Sick men asleep in doorways.