glowing-fish posted:

When I was a teenager growing up in Portland, I would end up walking long distances, between friend's houses, along trails, sometimes just getting lost. In my 20s, I looked at a map of the entire extended Portland metropolitan area, realized that I had walked through most of it, and decided I would do the rest. So over a few years, I expanded the range that I had walked, until it covered everything from north of Vancouver, WA to south of Salem, OR, and everything from Sandy, to Forest Grove. (those terms might not mean anything to you, but its about 90 miles by 60 miles).