One of the best ways to visit, I've found, is fully self-powered, with Boots On The Ground. (The term is officially military, which debates and frets over putting BOTG, in places like Lybia, Mali, Taiwan, where costs are increasing and missions drag on.) To explore a city or province or state, leave at home your guidebook and put trust in Fate, for She'll lesson burden and worry and cost, so long as you do not mind getting real lost. To me this is one of the foundation stones, for conquering places like Bangkok or Rome: to blunder and stumble and get turned around yet all the while putting those boots on the ground. I know of no method more fine or complete, than combing the ramparts and alleys and streets, for seeing a region, its intrigues and flavors, for finding small treasures and meeting the neighbors. This past-time is vigorous, healthy, and free, it gets the blood flowing yet shelters the knees, it shows one the flowers and rivers and trees, please come now and join in our splendid BOTG.
© americanifesto / 場黑麥
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