ABSTRACT
Walking, throughout one's history, has been the way to couple the short distances traversed daily at home with longer ones to other places. Their walking feet register the changing textures of the ground, and covering it step by step informs them of the effort and distance, as well as employing their senses of smell, sight and hearing in the manner for which they evolved. Before modern transport, walking was the principal means of getting around, and people thought nothing of covering substantial distances on foot for purposes of daily life. Being on or in a vehicle progressively removes sense impressions of walking at one's own speed, cutting off the feedback of the haptic sense of movement and then isolating smell and sound and proximity. But it can at least open a changing view and allow a passenger ease and relaxation. Transition into and out of vehicles has never been as protracted as with air travel.
