All these are present in Simon Armitage's equally entertaining Walking Home, an account of the poet's attempt on Britain's most gruelling trail, the 256-mile Pennine Way, as he tramps it the "wrong" way, north to south, towards his home village of Marsden.
"It's a bookend story so it should be a very fun, powerful and entertaining way to walk through the Bible," said Jonathan Martin, the course's designer and creator.
Now they involve a continuous string of entertaining, rocking, walking the aisle, diaper changing and feeding, all to avoid the looming nightmare known as Your Baby Losing It at 35,000 Feet.
He leaps up and shows me a "mini world premiere" on his screen of Wall, an animated film-in-progress based on his entertaining monologue about walking along the Berlin Wall; he has done the preliminary work at Shepperton Studios and now the National Film Board of Canada will spend two years turning it into a 50-minute animated cartoon.
Such shows, known on Madison Avenue as branded entertainment, have to walk a fine line between entertaining audiences and pitching to them.
Forget walking across the sand dunes - the most entertaining way to get around in the desert is by sliding downhill on a sandboard.
At last, one day she got away from the family with its continuous entertaining of guests, & walked through the streets of the city.
The video is simple but entertaining, as the subject walks through Tokyo city centers, side streets, and even glides up an escalator to overlook a sprawling shopping pavilion.
It can be fun, entertaining, and very interesting to walk through them and try to imagine it from the point of view of the people who built them or lived there.
That made life pleasurable for me, personally, as this entertaining combo of an attitude walked the streets of Tehran and tried to make sense of every complicated, labyrinthine, tangled, and miscellaneous situation I bumped into.
