Re: [ADS-L] went walkab out

[Joel S. Berson]

At 6/24/2009 10:00 PM, RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:
>Have you ever seen the Appalachian Trail? "walkabout" is not appropriate at
>all for hiking the trail.

Yes I have, and hiked a small segment of it (in Vermont).  I felt it
was enough of a rite of wilderness passage then.  :-)

(Unless you mean that one walks it linearly, so that it is not a "walk about".)

Joel

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