Dallas Is Unwalkable, They Said. So I Tried to Do It in One Day.

The books I read while growing up in the quiet, leafy Lake Highlands neighborhood of North Dallas tended toward the hardscrabble and violent. Many shared the oddly particular narrative of domesticated city kids winding up in the wilderness and learning self-reliance and courage while struggling to survive. It’s no wonder that after tattering the pages of The Boxcar Children, Hatchet, My Side of the Mountain, and Where the Red Fern Grows, ten-year-old me believed that life was meant to be lived mostly outdoors and that it was likely to involve fire, knives, animal attacks, and at least one of my friends dying accidentally from an axe to the belly.My parents, God bless them, did their best to fulfill this vision (save for the axe-in-belly part).…

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