What is Walkabout Anyway?

The term “walkabout” is derived from an ancient Australian aboriginal ritual, in which an individual engages in a period of wandering in the wilderness, ostensibly as a spiritual journey.   Many in our Western society have co-opted this useful and evocative term to refer to wanderings of any stripe for the purpose of personal reflection.  I am not the first to use it thusly, and certainly won’t be the last.

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