Long Soulful Walks

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How far do you walk? Where do you go? What do you think about? (you don't have to answer this one if you don't want to).

Any faves?

Today is perfect weather for a walk by the Thames in Richmond, but I'm stuck at work *sigh*

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 5 December 2002 10:16 (twenty-two years ago)

(I don't know how to drive so I walk almost everywhere. Anywhere within an hour away is considered walking distance. My walks are not so much soulful as observational. You never know what you're going to see! I saw a camel two weeks ago. A CAMEL! I like to think about how the city could be improved & how it will change in the next few decades. I like walking.)

― Miss Laura, Thursday, 5 December 2002 10:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I pretty much walk everywhere, but I love 'going for walks' too. I walk in the park around the campus at lunchtime. It's particularly beautiful in the winter, and I like to watch the other walkers and think about what lives they might be going back to. Also along the beach at Brighton when it's fairly deserted (sunrise or the depths of winter). For longer, quieter walks, it's the South Downs. These are more for just soaking up nature and being glad to be alive. And despite the relatively 'gentle' Sussex landscape I firmly hold that you get some of the best views in England from Devil's Dyke, Mount Caburn, Windover Hill...

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 5 December 2002 10:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I like to take long walks, weather permitting. I usually bring my Walkman along and concentrate on whatever music I'm playing, sometimes to the exclusion of everything else going on around me.

In the summer I'll walk over the Brooklyn Bridge and then to the East Village or Union Square. When it's cold I stay in my neighborhood and just walk along Henry St. or something.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 5 December 2002 10:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I walk out to sea regularly, but I never do a Reggie Perrin.

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Thursday, 5 December 2002 11:41 (twenty-two years ago)

for the really long ones (well long enough to try my patience) I walk to the mississippi and back

― Josh (Josh), Friday, 6 December 2002 05:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I walk a very great deal. The longest walk ever, and it was just a going for a walk walk, was from park slope to midtown.

there is a nice bike trail that goes through woods near my house right along the potomac river. i walk on that a lot, especialy at night. my favorite places on the trail are the power plant, which looks very beautiful at night, and national airport. I really love airports, especially when they are empty, but even if they are open, then I appreciate the smell of jet fuel.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Friday, 6 December 2002 06:03 (twenty-two years ago)

This makes me want to go for a walk! I'm going to and if I see anything interesting I'll write about it on this thread. A few days ago I saw this really cool dog who kept stopping and staring up at the trees that were blowing in the wind.

― maryann (maryann), Friday, 6 December 2002 07:34 (twenty-two years ago)

The circus was playing the theme to Mission Impossible. It doesn't have caged or exotic animals and I've heard a rumour it uses poodles, so the poodles must have been jumping through a really high hoop.

― maryann (maryann), Friday, 6 December 2002 09:28 (twenty-two years ago)

i walked with a zombie.

― cameron, Friday, 6 December 2002 20:42 (twenty-two years ago)

ten months pass...

I've just realised that most of my long soulful walks end up at Ealing Common with me sitting on a bench, thinking about all the things that need to change.

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 25 October 2003 15:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Ealing Common is quite nice. Do you ever walk to Horsenden Hill or is that folly?

― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 25 October 2003 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I could try, but it's kinda cut off by the major roads around Greenford. I have a sort of dislike of Greenford.

Walking to Richmond via the Thames at Chiswick Bridge is nice, but very long, and I have to get a bus back, so it feels a little like cheating.

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 25 October 2003 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

my longest solo walks:

Fleetville (St Albans) to West Hatfield (or what can only be described as)
Gunnersbury to Hammersmith
Marble Arch to Charing Cross

― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 25 October 2003 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I walked from Notting Hill to Hanwell once, but that's only coz I didn't want to hurry home. It was one of those post university days, when I didn't have a job and everyone was on at me about it all the time.

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 25 October 2003 15:18 (twenty-two years ago)

impressive!

― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 25 October 2003 15:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Long soulful walks are grebt. I generally go:

1. Up the drive.
2. Turn right.
3. First left up the path.
4. Keep walking.
5. Up the hill.
6. Turn right at the top.
7. Sit on the grass away from the cows, or climb a very cool tree at the top of the hill. This way, I can see all of the little villages surrounding my own, and admire the English countryside.
8. Down the hill on the other side.
9. Turn right at the end of the path.
10. Follow the road back to my driveway.

Its so desolate, on windy days I feel all lonely and Byronesque.

― Johnney B, Saturday, 25 October 2003 15:32 (twenty-two years ago)

One of my walks. I have lots of others though; it'd be mad not to have lots, living round here.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Saturday, 25 October 2003 17:35 (twenty-two years ago)

One of the best things about moving to an apartment on the other side of town is how many streets there are that you never explored. But the cassette part of my walkman's fucked and radio doesn't make for good long soulful walkage (but AC/DC does!) so it's been longer than it should be since I've done this.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 25 October 2003 18:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I tell you what's really good; walking backwards along a route you take quite often, perhaps everyday. I love doing that, seeing everything in reverse, wondering where particular turn-offs are in relation to things. There was a piece of grafitti on Dawlish train-station that was positioned so you'd only see it if you travelled south-bound, that said "we are here to live", a surpirisingly existential smear of vandalism for a small seaside town. And most people in Dawlish train-station head north-bound for Exeter, so never saw it.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Saturday, 25 October 2003 18:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Anthony, you can buy a casette walkman for like $15. No excuse!

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 25 October 2003 20:58 (twenty-two years ago)

ok yeah. but I'm probably gonna be doin it once a year. shitty fuckin' wal-mart brands.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 26 October 2003 18:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I love taking long walks, especially on sunny-but-kinda-chilly days like we've been having here lately. When I lived on this one street right off university campus a few years back, once or twice a month I would walk through downtown Lexington and up to the cemetery, which is very pretty with lots of amazing old trees, and visit the graves of a couple of my friends buried there. I've told this to others and they said they thought it sounded morbid/depressing, but I always found it very soul-refreshing to spend beautiful days like these paying respects & remembering.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 27 October 2003 13:41 (twenty-two years ago)

five months pass...

Today's walk was about 8 miles, ended up on Ealing Common, didn't really think about anything.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 12 April 2004 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I love long walks. I have been in Glasgow (and west glasgow at that) for too, too long so i'm getting extremely bored with my surroundings. One of my nicest memories is taking a walk to Victoria Park on an autumn day (for the record Victoria Park in the autumn in a world beatingly beautiful place) and sitting on a bench reading the only thing i had to read, which was a printout of 'A Portrait of a Lady' by TS Eliot which was completely perfect...

ahhhhhh....

i miss autumn.

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Monday, 12 April 2004 16:20 (twenty-one years ago)

i wish there were places to walk around where i live.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Monday, 12 April 2004 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

there's alway places to walk!

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Monday, 12 April 2004 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

just in the street around shady neighborhoods!

there's lake in town but it's too far to walk to and i know i'll never make it a habit to drive there. oh and a lady was raped there recently at around 11am. .

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Monday, 12 April 2004 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I forgot about shady neighbourhoods. (I have a sheltered G12 existence). och. walking's the best...

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Monday, 12 April 2004 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

An eight mile walk! Jel I R impressed. I try for shorter walks in my neighborhood and have made some nice discoveries of unexpected parks.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 12 April 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

the sheltered G12 experience.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 12 April 2004 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I swear in Kelvindale we are so bourgeois that I didn't realise that one's parents could be divorced until i saw the TV show Bread.

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Monday, 12 April 2004 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

i had a nice if chilly walk in kelvin park last year. later someone told me that i could have ended up mugged/raped/chopped into bits by junkies. was there really that much danger lurking?

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 12 April 2004 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not sure that's G12 innit.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 12 April 2004 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

depends what time of day. 10-10, OK. 10-10, not OK.

I have never seen anything untoward but etc.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 12 April 2004 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

it was one of the better walks in recent memory, actually. i had with me a copy of nme's madchester special issue spectacular for company, and afterwards i had some curry chips from the indian/pizza/kebab. i was permitted to sit in the "dining room," which the owners apparently keep off-limits to natives.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 12 April 2004 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I had to walk about 4 blocks to work today because my car broke down on the way there. I can't say it was fun.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Monday, 12 April 2004 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I like to walk. Sometimes I think it's the only real privacy one can get. For some reason sitting indoors alone is not as conducive to thinking or being alone with your thoughts.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 12 April 2004 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, that's totally true about the privacy thing there Ronan!

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 12 April 2004 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Although the problem is sometimes it can be depressing. I find the yellow street lights near where I live kind of bleak too, in a beautiful way but sometimes I wish I stayed in keeping busy.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 12 April 2004 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I know what you mean, today I ended up walking past my old high school, and I really quickened my pace to get the hell away from there.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 12 April 2004 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

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