A book you may need to read

[Naomi B]

After reading a recent essay about the solitude winter camping offers, I was reminded about the book “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking” by S. Cain. It’s a good read and authenticates why some of us seek quiet places and people.

 

[Paul Wagner]

Since you mentioned good books…

Thanks to a friend, I am reading American Ramble by Neil King Jr—a delightful story of his walk from Washington DC to New York.  It’s well worth your time.  And in it he quotes that master of horror, Edgar Allan Poe:

“In America generally, the traveler who would behold the finest landscapes, must seek them not by the railroad, nor by the steamboat, nor by the stagecoach, not in his private carriage, nor yet even on horseback—but on foot.  He must walk, he must leap ravines, he must risk his neck among precipices, or he must leave unseen the truest, the richest, and most unspeakable glories of the land.”

 

Turns out Poe was a hiker, too!

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