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[QUOTE="Perambulating Griffin, post: 1204312, member: 103777"] Love this thread. Thanks to [USER=52787]@trecile[/USER] for starting it. I am definitely a walker who finds myself occasionally on hiking terrain. I like to leave from my home to arrive somewhere... The rail trail that takes me to town, where I get a treat, sit by the lake... do a few things in town... maybe see some people. The Portuguese deli across town when I'm in the city (which gives me a 16k round-trip mostly "ugly walk" through banal areas of an urban region, punctuated with green spaces that have paths through small wooded areas and along creeks, etc.). The airport loop that gets me a diner lunch at the small airport and reminds me very much of arriving into Burgos... I purposely go the ugliest highway route that I can... and then the return trip is mostly along rivers and through green spaces on the edge of town. Sometimes I walk 13 K on side roads to get to the best hamburger I know, and sit on the shores of *that* lake at the public dock, watching the birds, boaters and such... A friend offers often enough for me to join her on the Bruce... but it's an ever further car trip to the trail head she wants to get to... and there's nothing at the end of the walk except to return to the parking lot we started from. And sometimes I am specifically a pilgrimage walker, with a major destination and smaller ports of encouragement along the way. I agree with [USER=31995]@David Tallan[/USER] that it is helpful to know these things about oneself if possible before becoming a disgruntled *hiker* who is annoyed by tarmac and industrial areas and troublesome human history all along the camino routes. Oddly enough, I did go on my first camino as an avowed *cyclist* who would do almost anything to avoid the tedium of either walking or hiking. Suffice it to say I was changed... Can't remember the last time I rode my bike... [/QUOTE]
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