Like others with Paul Salopek's Eden Walk I am pleased to be "reminded that as human beings our journey on Earth is a migration we begin in birth and end in death. The path we take toward our end is one that seems to pull us back to where we started. Along the way, what we learn, what we experience, and what we accomplish all bring us to that place deep inside where we connect with each other. Most of the time I have avoided connecting—fear and other insecurities have been huge obstacles. I am still learning to relish and rely upon that connection."
Every hundred miles Paul Salopek pauses to record the landscape and a person he meets, assembling a global snapshot of humankind. It's so wonderful to read someone who is on a storytelling odyssey across the world in the footsteps of our human forebears. You can read him at nationalgeographic.org - https://www.nationalgeographic.org/projects/out-of-eden-walk/#section-0
And a brief summary is https://www.newyorker.com/news/out-of-eden/a-twenty-four-thousand-mile-walk-across-human-history
He writes: "Six years into trek, two broad impressions have emerged, at boot level, of this vast world.
First: We’re living in a golden age of human migration.
The second change I sense underfoot.
It is like a tectonic shift—a new geological weight over the horizon that tilts the surface of the planet east.
This is when we have Walks inspiring many to keep on ‘stepping’, as well as to continue to look after physical and mental wellbeing.- interesting ones in office as well - 31 days, 111 teams, 112 million steps, 50,000 miles! and I had some crazy thoughts; running in my head - I got to read about Paul Salopek - Thanks to Sony George for introducing Paul to me. During the walk here an individual who had the highest individual score walked over a phenomenal 1.8 million steps!
The book "Around the world in 80 days" read during school days, made me think it was possible to travel around the world, and was fascinated to learn about day light saving, and how it would work with different timings and climate around. But Walking around the world, and writing it, with such simple words, is really encouraging and enriching.
Hats off to you Paul Salopek...May your tribe increase. Best wishes!
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