Here’s a map showing yesterday’s walk, one of the variations I can do directly from my house since I hate to drive somewhere to walk.
I like walking, it’s one of the best ways to let the mind wander, and it just so happened that yesterday it wandered towards a bit of pathway criticism.
Since the negative more often than not closes your vision, I do try to avoid going there, however it used to be that there were trekking paths all over this country, and now many of them have disappeared and they make you walk on the paved roads where you have cars speeding by, in a hurry to go grill that Saturday afternoon picnic sausage.
I guess it’s cheaper to upkeep, probably keeps the farmers happier since it’s true that there are stupid people that disrespect their surroundings by leaving trash, breaking stuff and perhaps even leave the gates open after passing through… Hard to know how many they are, but for the trash bit more than you want to realize. And, when you still do have a path trough the woods somewhere, it is often turned into a highway of mud by the tree crew who now have big machines to drag out the trees they cut.
Nope, walking is not what it used to be.
Not that it’s not beautiful: from a distance everything seems as groomed as in a miniature train landscape.