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Your 2020 TRAMPING HOROSCOPE

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You’re one of life’s great plodders. You take perverse pleasure in holding the group up, in lagging behind, in being the last to be ready. Good for you! Tramping’s never been a race, nor a religion for that matter. If it is, you’re most definitely not the messiah. You see it more as an ideology, as a set of rules to live and die by. Have you read Alain de Botton’s latest book, Consolations of Tramping? You tend to overthink things, worry what to pack, fret that you’ve left the stove on the rock at that last rest stop. Trust your instincts and go back. Please don’t die.

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