John Muir is on my mind this month as PBS presents a documentary of his life and work, John Muir in the New World. John Muir arrived in California in 1868. He was already an accomplished walker at the age of thirty, having walked from Indiana to Florida. He wanted to see Yosemite and chose to walk. He walked from Oakland through the Santa Clara Valley, over the Pacheco Pass, across the San Joaquin Valley, and then up the foothills through Coulterville to Yosemite Valley.
“I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.”
I hope this famous quote by Muir inspires you to take a slow walk to a destination in the near future.