How to Travel Free: Walking Long Distance

All journey's start with a single step. Placing one foot in front of the other, pointing yourself in a particular direction, all it takes is one more step and your on your way. Prehistoric man migrated across continents, so what's your excuse?

With today's foot wear meeting the needs of every possible sports activity and out door past time, surely you can find something in the way of shoes that are comfortable for walking long distance. Lightweight backpacking camping gear can provide you with shelter from the elements. If you don't feel like carrying your load on your back, a lightweight push cart or pull cart will do the task for you.

Continually we hear that the best way to avoid Diabetes is to get adequate exercise and that walking is all that's necessary to meet that requirement. This leads one to believe that walking is not excessively strenuous and that the average person is quite capable of taking up walking as a way to maintain or regain mobility and good body tone.

With this in mind, what better way to travel then to walk. Across the state, across the country, once you start your pilgrimage can be as long as you wish.

Surprisingly you can cover great distances in reasonable amounts of time. Gary Hause is walking around the world in stages. His trek across the U.S. took only 87 days. Europe took a bit longer at 147 days.

Become a Thru-Hiker, Walk the Appalachian Trail. Many have made this their jumping off point in the world of long distance walks. Though most set out to make the jaunt as the ultimate adventure.

Thoreau's dissertation on walking breaks down the meaning and source of the word Sauntering. As a pleasing way to occupy time while forever learning and absorbing new experiences, walking can be an awakening of your soul.

There is no class distinction in walkers, financial wherewithal means nothing. All it takes is your two feet, and the time to explore.

Start small, around the block. Next move to around your neighborhood. Expand to around your city, maybe on toward the next town. Before you know it you'll be plotting your course for new and ever more interesting places.

Once you experience the wonders of what you see, and hear while walking you will wonder how people can simply drive through the country side and miss all the little things in their hurry to get from one place to another. They just don't understand that the destination is the journey itself.