Wandering Rules

I came across this link today while wandering through my Favorites file: Rules of Wandering. I've saved links for Blogs&Pods that I found interesting, and most are categorized by topic. However, some blogs, like this one at West Egg, don't limit themselves to particular topics. The problem is, when I get in an organizational mood, I am frustrated with where or how to file them! No matter - they serve to prob me to check them out, one more time - and then, look what I came up with!

This article, on the art of wandering, I suppose, WELL - to continue, I had to stop and actually read the article! I begin again: This article, on the art of wandering, I suppose, is just the kind of article I love to discover by wandering on the web. It's a true delight. It made me stop in my tracks, and look through someone else's eyes for a moment or two. And, it added new thoughts and ideas into my own experience. In fact, it proves, through my experience, the entire VALUE, of wandering: You become more than you were before, through the aggregation of experience-by-association.

West Egg (I'm sure he has a name; I just can't find it right now) reminds of what I found more remarkable about our recent trip to Europe - how wanderable are Europe's cities! Not that we had much time for that - the tour schedule was pretty rigorous. However, I saw many areas I'd love to go back to, and the ones that were pedestrian-friendly certainly stand out the most in my memory. Amsterdam was remarkable in how pedestrian it was; and it is just this quality that makes me love the area where I worked (delivering mail in San Francisco's Sunset District) and where I live (near "downtown" Glen Park - a remarkable village-within-an-urban-forest). Which just proves another point Friedman (yes, I found out his name is Steven Morgan Friedman) made: we are attracted to what we like by association. Pedestrian neighborhoods are, to me, friendly, warm, and livable/lovable. How I wish that more cities knew the value of making themselves wanderable...