Getting old is something trampers should relish, not resent writes Pete Lusk ‘What a drag it is getting old.’ So sang the Rolling Stones in the late 1960s. I took the words at face value back then. I was just beginning to tramp seriously and thought to myself, ‘Better do as much tramping as I can while I’m […]
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