Walking Across America for Little Children: Anna Harrington

By Frosty Wooldridge “For Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice, solitary walks express the independence that literally takes the heroine out of the social sphere of the houses and their inhabitants, into a larger, lonelier world where she is free to think: walking articulates both physical and mental freedom…it connects one to the Earth.” Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking (Anna Harrington stopping for a rest at the Buffalo Overlook on Route 40 five miles West of Golden, Colorado. She faces the Great Plains on the second third of her walk across America. Catch her on Facebook: Anna's Walk Across America. Website: www.annaswalk.com ) When you take a walk, especially in the woods, you feel a connection to nature that transforms your energy, quiets your body and soothes your mind.



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