There was a guy who showed up here in town a while back who was bicycling across America to prove some point or other. While I admire their determination and *desire to do*, I also wonder if it isn't more futile than beneficial?
I havent heard of him but Ive met all sorts of people on "walks", a few years ago a group of Buddhist Monks went through town on their way to the west coast who were walking for peace, about a year later I met a guy who was carrying a cross who had been carrying it around the world for 20 years.
Two 20 somethings I know are circumnavigating the globe, I get email updates every few days --they are somewhere in Scotland at the moment, and I also live right on the Appalachian Trail which everyday brings people around who are walking from Georgia to Maine.
most people that I get a chance to talk to seem to have one reason or another why they are doing it but to all of them it generally is a life changing event and rearranges their priorities in a good way
Occasionally someone in a musicology context will go with the second--but not always.
If I hear the second it usually indicates to me that they are probably 'studied' in musicology or i get that feeling anyway---of course maybe they're just from someplace else.
I'll go either way on music but almost always (again 99%) prefer the first.
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There was a guy who showed up here in town a while back who was bicycling across America to prove some point or other. While I admire their determination and *desire to do*, I also wonder if it isn't more futile than beneficial?
Regardless --- Good Luck to Hakim.
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I havent heard of him but Ive met all sorts of people on "walks", a few years ago a group of Buddhist Monks went through town on their way to the west coast who were walking for peace, about a year later I met a guy who was carrying a cross who had been carrying it around the world for 20 years.
Two 20 somethings I know are circumnavigating the globe, I get email updates every few days --they are somewhere in Scotland at the moment, and I also live right on the Appalachian Trail which everyday brings people around who are walking from Georgia to Maine.
most people that I get a chance to talk to seem to have one reason or another why they are doing it but to all of them it generally is a life changing event and rearranges their priorities in a good way
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Mstar -- do you pronounce it Apple - atch - chun, or
Apple - AAA - tion trail. Jest curious. ;)
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ha
lemme give this a shot
most of the time (92.3%
) I pronounce it
App uh lay shun
and just once in awhile
app uh latch uhn.
The trail is 99.99% the first one in my parts,
Occasionally someone in a musicology context will go with the second--but not always.
If I hear the second it usually indicates to me that they are probably 'studied' in musicology or i get that feeling anyway---of course maybe they're just from someplace else.
I'll go either way on music but almost always (again 99%) prefer the first.
...or else i just call em fiddle tunes
There.
is that all confusing enough? :)
How do they say it out in Minn uh so tah ?
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