Walking Without A Plan is Dangerous, Destructive, and Delightful

If you make it out alive you’ll have a great story

This is a bit of the coastal path I walked on Saturday. Delightful. Photo by author.

“Do we have a plan?”

“Course we do. We walk, until we stop walking, and maybe on the way we find some kind of a future.”

“That’s a good plan.” — The Salt Path by Raynor Winn

We had a plan when my husband and I headed up Mt. Fuji with our three kids. I did my research, we were traveling with boy scouts, and we still risked our lives because I failed to readjust my plan appropriately when conditions were more challenging than I anticipated.

You can read the entire story here:

13 Mistakes I Made Dragging My Family Up and Down Mt. Fuji

I thought of our Fuji hike frequently while reading chapters 3–6 of The Salt Path. Like us, Raynor and Moth Winn weren’t prepared physically for the challenges of the walk, they found themselves moving much slower than the guidebook suggested, and they ran out of crucial supplies.

When they started to realize how ill-prepared they were for the journey should they have…