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The tour bus was supposed to be here ten minutes ago. Would it be possible to give them a ring to check they've not forgotten us?

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Under most conditions, the best roof for your bedroom is the sky. This commonsense arrangement saves weight, time, energy, and money.

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Mostly, two miles an hour is good going.

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Every walk of life falls under the Testicular Imperative: Either you have the world by them, or it has you.

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Details of the many walks I made along the crest have blurred, now, into a pleasing tapestry of grass and space and sunlight.

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There there is nothing like a wilderness journey for rekindling the fires of life. Simplicity is part of it. Cutting the cackle. Transportation reduced to leg - or arm - power, eating irons to one spoon. Such simplicity, together with sweat and silence, amplify the rhythms of any long journey, especially through unknown, untattered territory. And in the end such a journey can restore an understanding of how insignificant you are -- and thereby set you free.

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Frankly, I fail to see how going for a six-month, thousand-mile walk through deserts and mountains can be judged less real than spending six months working eight hours a day, five days a week, in order to earn enough money to be able to come back to a comfortable home in the evening and sit in front of a TV screen and watch the two-dimensional image of some guy talking about a book he has written on a six-month, thousand-mile walk through deserts and mountains.

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