Now here’s a blog that was hoisted into cyberspace – rather like this rainbow – on 1 November last. It’s the work of Ken Ilgunas, who describes himself as a former cart-pushing New York suburbanite turned Alaska-inspired, Thoreau-style traveller. Read what he says, particularly about his walk, stay and ride out of Rhenigidale on the school-bus. The paradox is of a man motivated to fulfil his pipe-dreams of travelling to places far away, but here encountering school-pupils, absorbed by their smartphones, uninterested in him.