The Walker, the Driver, and Otto: Wayfaring Strangers on a Continental Roundabout

Journeys have their own sense of time-their own momentum. They make of the months and moments a new calendar and clock. Our adventure tried and tested us according to its own philosophy. We came to realize time and again that there would be no teaching it-it would always be teaching us.

The Walker, the Driver, and Otto is the memoir of a year in the life of the Walker: Physical education teacher, masters record-holding swimmer, on a 1987-88 sabbatical to walk around the approximate perimeter...