Walking Tours
Now, to be properly enjoyed, a walking tour should be gone upon alone.
The walk
Alone, he argues, you keep your freedom, your own pace and your quiet: “There should be no cackle of voices at your elbow, to jar on the meditative silence of the morning.”
He quotes Hazlitt’s On Going a Journey and says it “is so good that there should be a tax levied on all who have not read it.” He also teases Hazlitt for wanting a winding road: “the epicure!”
The line
“you should be able to stop and go on, and follow this way or that, as the freak takes you”
Straight stretches between small knots. At each stop the line circles once and leaves in a new direction.