Once again I've got that feeling of travelling a similar path.

It's one of the paradoxes of the internet where somehow we're all on the same ladder and unless you're the GOAT, you're mediocre. While at the same time there are so many different paths to travel, we can find fellow travellers in a way we'd perhaps never have expected.

As someone who can be a bit of a bumbler in conversation, I got a laugh out of that.

Sometimes it is the road less travelled that is full of surprises. I recall a conversation with a friend (forgive me if I'm repeating myself) where we were talking about Strahan, a town on the west coast of Tasmania. I asked him if he'd ever been. He said yes, he walked there in the 70s. From Maydena, that's about 250kms through incredibly dense bush.

https://medium.com/the-authentic-eclectic/getting-horizontal-in-tasmania-ab4ec660e828

The photo entitled "Not very deep in the forest." should give you an idea of the sort of bush he was walking through. It took him 19 days, living off the land.

The funny thing was the part of the story he relished to most was when he got to the other end, he walked into a camping ground deep in the forest where a family was sitting around the campfire. They looked up, puzzled and asked him where he came from. He pointed east, even deeper into the forest.

"You should have seen the looks on their faces."

And thus is the joy of the road less travelled. You can pop up when least expected and surprise everyone.

I was going to do the long version, but that will probably need an article of its own.