I really enjoy hiking, but there aren't many nice places to do it where I live.
You don't really need to be anywhere to go hiking, just go for a long vigorous walk!
I've heard that hiking has different names in other countries. It that true?
Oh, yes, in the United Kingdom they don't say hiking they just say walking
I hike because I enjoy nature. Are there any health benefits to hiking?
With the rapid decline in the quality of US health insurance, hiking should be everyone's free health insurance!
True, I'm sure that if more people hiked, we'd be more healthy. Is it a popular form of exercise?
the UK, along with rambling (a slightly old-fashioned term), hillwalking, and fell walking (a term mostly used for hillwalking in northern England). The term bushwalking is endemic to Australia, having been adopted by the Sydney Bush Walkers club in 1927. In New Zealand a long, vigorous walk or hike is called tramping. It is a popular activity with numerous worldwide, and studies suggest that all forms of walking have health benefits.
Related terms.
In the United States, Canada, the
I'll just have to stay. Even if I really don't want to. In fact I guess I really don't. It is so much easier just to go home. I could get a little job and make everyone happy on a day to day type basis and get a little money and live by myself in my own apartment or something ... but I don't think that's what I really want to do. I've always felt that, to be dedicated to life, you have to be really passionate