Could read walking books all day long if they were all like this

Listening for Coyote

A Walk Across Oregon's Wilderness

by William L. Sullivan

I wish Mr. Sullivan would walk across every state and write a book about them, each and every one.  I'd read them with complete happiness.

His walking story is personal, historical, topical and gregarious-ical. Whatever you call it--the stories of people he meets. And of course Coyote, who follows him metaphysically. They only meet once, that I remember, but are always together in thought.

He's a great writer and a great walker. What more can I say?

One night early on, when he had a rare companion, he wrote this:

It was the first clear night of the trip--and what a spectacle it was! Blue-white Vega beamed precisely overhead, yellow Arcturus shimmered to one side, and across the whole blazed the Milky Way, glowing so brightly that the dark, mottled dust clouds of the galaxy's arm stood out in sharp relief.

In the stillness of the night, the unseen gravity pressing our backs against the dark meadow seemed like an untrustworthy force--as if it might suddenly fail, and we would go hurtling off into the galaxy on edge before us.

Been there. Want to be there again.