Substituting Hikes for Heroin

After walking 26 miles from his South London home to Heathrow Airport, British novelist Will Self walked from New York's Kennedy Airport to Manhattan. Nine years ago, he got booted from John Major's campaign plane for snorting heroin in the bathroom. Today he takes epic hikes. “People don’t know where they are anymore, “ he said. “In the post-industrial age, this is the only form of real exploration left." New York Times story.