Sauntering

 

 Io, Don Lucio de La Romagna, el Caminante de la Triste Figura (anche Don Quijote de la Mancha, a un certo punto, decise di chiamarsi el Caballero de la Triste Figura), volentieri riporto questo punto di vista di Henry David Thoreau che, se come nella foto equipaggiato, sicuramente non entrava nel conto del one or two di cui ora ci riferisce:

"I have met but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks--who had a genius, so to speak, for sauntering, which word is beautifully derived 'from idle people who roved about the country, in the Middle Ages, and asked charity, under the pretense of going à la Sante Terre,' to the Holy Land, till the children exclaimed, 'There goes a Sainte-Terrer,' a Saunterer, a Holy Lander. They who never go to the Holy Land in their walks, as they pretend, are indeed mere idlers and vagabonds; but they who do go there are saunterers in the good sense... For every walk is a sort of crusade, preached by some Peter the Hermit in us, to go forth and reconquer this Holy Land from the hands of the Infidels."

Henry David Thoreau