Relaxation Rewind! A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf, by John Muir, Part 1
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Muir's Travels
Only about twenty-two towns and cities are mentioned in his journal. This constitutes a very small number when one considers the distance he covered. Evidently he was so absorbed in the plant life of the regent reversed that he paid no heed to towns, and perhaps avoided them whenever possible. The sickness which overtook him in Florida was probably of a malarial kind, although he describes it under different names. It was no doubt a misfortune in itself and a severe test for his vigorous constitution. But it was also a blessing in disguise. Inasmuch as it prevented him from carrying out his foolhardy plan of penetrating the tropical jungles of South America along the Andes to a t
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