I did much deliberating on what I should name my blog. I knew there would be refrence to sasquatches, or bigfoot, possibly a yeti. I knew it would allude to the fact that I am a mountain bum and that wilderness was a place of solitude, solace, a place I call home. However I didn't know how to term it, then as I was reading "Walking" by Henry David Thoreau I was inspired, yes inspired. In the first few pages of the book he gives a description of what sauntering means. Usually sauntering is connected to maybe someone who might not be all there(which I have been guilty of at times) or someone who might be considered lazy(yet again, guilty). Thoreau's view and defintion suites me better... and will be used as a motive in the future when the other said defintions are hurled in my direction. Sauntering as stated by Thoreau, " is beautifuly derived "from idle people who roved about the country, in the Middle Ages, and asked charity, under pretense of going a la Sainte Terre," to the Holy land, till the children exlcaimed, "There goes a Sainte-Terrer," a Saunterer, a Holy Lander. They who never go to the Holy Land in their walks, as they preten, are indeed mere idlers and vagabonds; but they who do go there are saunterers in the good sense, such as I mean. Some, however, would derive the word from sans terre, without land or a home, which, therefore, in the good sense, will mean, having no particular home, but equally at home everywhere. For this is the secret to successful sauntering. For every walk is a sort of crusad, preached by some Peter the Hermit in us, to go forth and reconquer this Holy Land form the hands of the Infidels." Sop this is what I about to go out walking and come back with meaning, to come back full with stories, poems, revelations, and bigger calve muscles. The blogs posted here will usually be reports of my saunterings, things i have gained in the woods.