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psychoticmilkman  ·  3597 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The 34,000km, 7-year walk

    What has been the biggest impediment to walking? ...

    Actually, it’s something even more intangible yet maddeningly granitic: borders. I love them and hate them. They unlock strange panoramas in our collective psyche; the boundaries of identity, of inward-outerness. Yet each one I walk across is also a threshold of human failure. A failure of imagination, of compassion, of curiosity.

This is an amazing answer. As someone who has not yet traveled across my country's border, I've never thought about it like that.