A journalist finds beauty and humor while hiking the Appalachian Trail.

He thinks upon his history, and how his adoptive parents, Martha and Jonathan Kent, told him how they found him while hiking through woodland.

One of my early gaffes as a vagabonder happened in Chinese Macao, where I found a small slope of green grass while hiking below the walls of the local Portuguese fortress.

Dave and I found parts of the skeleton of a grey whale while hiking on the Westcoast Trail.