Tag: Walking
Walking Off Writer’s Burnout
by Jeff Biggers | 09.17.15 | 1:33 PM ET
Jeff Biggers hadn't written anything original in months. The joy was gone. Then he and a friend went for a stroll in Bologna.
Why is This Man Walking Around the World?
by Jim Benning | 03.21.14 | 12:26 PM ET
Aspiring travel writers can choose any number of paths. They can start a blog, or intern at a magazine, or simply start pitching stories to editors.
But 24-year-old Ryan Newburn is taking a different approach. He plans to spend four or five years walking around the world—almost literally. He’ll hoof it across Japan, then New Zealand, then Australia, and then he’ll work his way up Southeast Asia, and that’s only the beginning.
Why?
Among other things, the Nebraska native told Newsweek: “I thought about what I wanted to do with my life, and I’ve always wanted to be a travel writer. I want to meet extraordinary people from all walks of life, all over the world, and write about them.”
Well, if he pulls off the epic trek, he’ll have one incredible story to tell.
Paris: Pedestrianizing the Seine?
by Eva Holland | 07.01.10 | 1:43 PM ET
Good news for fans of dreamy riverside strolls: Paris city councilors will vote next month on a vehicle ban along the Left Bank. The ban would apply to a mile-plus stretch of riverside real estate, from roughly the Musee d’Orsay to the Eiffel Tower, and according to This Just in, “[p]ermanent foot and cycle paths ... 35 acres of new cafés, parks, sports facilities, and floating islands” would also be part of the package.
Which Way to the Promenade?
by Spud Hilton | 05.24.10 | 1:19 PM ET
On the changing cruise industry and the joys of promenades past
‘The Truth is People do Walk in L.A.’
by Michael Yessis | 05.20.10 | 11:06 AM ET
Ryan Bradley’s Good series Walking in L.A. gets off to a strong start. He aims to reverse the notion that Los Angeles isn’t a place for walkers, and he’s carrying a lot of statistical ammunition.
Everyone thinks they know L.A., even if they’ve never been west of St. Louis. Nobody walks in L.A., right? There’s that Missing Persons song, or that line from Steve Martin’s L.A. Story: “...it’s not like New York, where you can meet someone walking down the street. In L.A. you practically have to hit someone with your car. In fact, I know girls who speed just to meet cops.”
But the truth is people do walk in L.A. And bike. Fully 12 percent of all trips in Los Angeles are by bicycle or on foot—that’s more than Austin or Portland. In sheer numbers, L.A. has more bikers and walkers than Washington, D.C., or Chicago, or even San Francisco. And it happens to be far safer for biking and walking than all three, according to a 2010 Benchmarking Report by the Alliance for Biking and Walking. I lump walking and biking together only because, until very recently, so did everyone else. In the 1990s biking and walking were “alternative,” like rock music. Fifteen years ago, Los Angeles spent “about $1 million” a year on pedestrians and bike services. This year Los Angeles has earmarked $36 million on walking alone. Could it be that this western cow-town, this place that’s synonymous with self-reinvention, is reinventing itself?
Bradley’s first exploratory walk in L.A.: a 17-mile trek from LAX to downtown.
Rory Stewart Wins in UK Election
by Michael Yessis | 05.07.10 | 11:07 AM ET
“The Places in Between” author and Tory politician Rory Stewart captured 53.4 percent of the vote and will represent Penrith and The Border as a Member of Parliament. As Slate’s June Thomas tweeted, “Let the walking begin.”
Rory Stewart: Member of Parliament?
by Michael Yessis | 05.03.10 | 11:36 AM ET
The author of “The Places in Between” is running for office in the U.K. No surprise how he’s campaigning. The man who walked from Iran to Nepal has, according to Slate, walked “300 miles over sheep-dotted hills” to familiarize himself with his potential constituency.
Why I Walk
by Bill Belleville | 04.29.10 | 10:57 AM ET
No, it's not quick or expedient. But it offers something other modes of transport can't. Bill Belleville on traveling by foot.
Video You Must See: ‘The Longest Street in the World’
by Eva Holland | 02.25.10 | 11:48 AM ET
Two photographers take a stop-motion walk down Toronto's Yonge Street, a one-time Guinness World Record holder
Video You Must See: Dawn at the Summit of Skiddaw
by Eva Holland | 12.21.09 | 10:35 AM ET
Morning Links: Holidays in Banda Aceh, ‘Slavery Theme Park’ and More
by Michael Yessis | 02.17.09 | 9:15 AM ET
- Passengers can no longer kiss at England’s Warrington Bank Quay Station.
- Is Marlon Jackson supporting a “slavery theme park” in Nigeria?
- The Mumbai attacks have apparently “put the brakes” on tourism in India.
- State and local governments to travel booking sites: Pay up!
- Daisann McLane: “Until I learn a place with my feet, I never really feel like I know it.”
- John Aglionby says Banda Aceh “has arguably become one of south-east Asia’s hidden holiday destinations.”
- Spud Hilton sifts through language-study options for travelers.
- In typo news: There’s one on the Manhattan Supreme Courthouse. It only took 82 years to discover it. Hooray!
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Will Self: On ‘Psychogeography’ and the Places That Choose You
by Frank Bures | 12.17.07 | 4:41 PM ET
The novelist and journalist talks to Frank Bures about his new book, long-distance walking and our search for the places that embrace us
Walking Off the Karakoram Highway
by Jeffrey Tayler | 08.20.07 | 11:17 AM ET
On a winding route to Pakistan's Rama Lake, taunted and ignored, Jeffrey Tayler learns the truth of the saying, "All politics is local"
Caught in a Czech Funk
by David Farley | 02.21.07 | 5:57 AM ET
All David Farley wanted from the tourist information office in the tiny town of Nove Hrady was directions to the train station. Then he asked the young clerk a seemingly innocuous question: Was that funk booming from the speakers?
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