Table of Contents
First… 1
Our crisis of connection 17
All the lonely people 18
A pub-to-pub walk: Dorset-Somerset-Wilshire, England 29
The scrolling, the bloody scrolling. 35
The C-bomb 48
The Heididorf hike, Switzerland 64
The elephant in the room 76
A path for our souls 93
A brief bridging chapter 94
The Royal National Park hike, Sydney, Australia 102
Cultivate big kindness like a Greek 106
The Samariá Gorge trail, Crete, Greece 108
Become a soul nerd 122
The Lake District hike, Cumbria, England 123
Go to your edge 136
The Julian Alps hike, Slovenia 150
Hike, just hike. 152
The White Mountain trail, Crete, Greece 165
Get full-fat spiritual 173
Joshua Tree National Park hike, California, USA 176
Now we change the world 189
Show up to your appointment 190
The Grose Valley hike, the Blue Mountains, Australia 196
Start where you are 209
#Buylesslivemore 216
St. Ives to Penzance hike, England 237
Pay attention! think! 243
The Cradle Mountain hike, Tasmania 252
Get antifragile 259
The Kumano Kodo pilgrimage walk, Japan 263
Be comfortable not knowing 272
Forest bathing hike, Topanga Canyon, Los Angeles, California, USA 282
A flâneur in Paris (in which history repeats itself) 286
Get wild 291
Wadi Rum hike, Jordan 293
Become adult 313
The John Muir Trail, Sierra Nevada, California, USA 326
Home 330
You can find more on my website* 343
Text acknowledgments 343