Walking as Vision Quest

Out at Kestor and surrounds on Dartmoor this afternoon. I've been walking round the reservoirs lately, and I'd forgotten how joyful it can be to be out on the open moor with its vistas and wildness and silence. And I'm walking so easily now I'm 50lbs less than I was in June - not that I was huge, but since the big once-in-a-lifetime soul retrieval that occurred then, that has changed who I am, and is still in its early stages, I'm delighting in being a slim guy

And I have this notion of walking as Vision Quest. The point of a Vision Quest is to be with yourself - and Spirit in all its forms - over a prolonged period. And to be honest, I just get too bored sitting in one place. But walking, that is something else. I am deeply with myself, and fed by the natural world as I walk. I am thinking of a longer walk in the spring, maybe the Offa's Dyke path, something I've never done before. 

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But I think there's definitely something in the idea of a long walk as Vision Quest. I got the idea from the film and book Wild, a true story in which a young woman heals herself by walking the arduous Pacific Trail on her own. I highly recommend both the film and the book.