We followed a footpath away from the projects, under railroad tracks, up to a scrubby clearing beside a junk yard of decaying freight containers.
For those traveling to Britain this summer, there's a new bus pass with special student and youth rates, a new youth hostel in the ancient university city of Oxford and a youth hostel in York in a Victorian house where historical sites are just a footpath away.
Follow one of Fire Island's quaint footpaths away from the ferry dock, past modest cottages and better-appointed vacation homes, to an elegant modern beach house that extends across three lots.
Around 30 miles south of Mombasa, a beaten footpath stretches away from the main road, meanders around shrubs and coconut trees, and leads into Gazi village.
A single footpath leads away from a car park – it is long enough and sufficiently unpromising to deter most from reaching the pocket of wild countryside that it points to.
But 20 yards from the car park, through a metal gate, a footpath led us away from the crowds through low, aromatic shrubs and clumps of wild euphorbia, under shady stands of pine and along the cliffs towards Deya.
Until last year, pilgrims would trek for 14km (nine miles) to reach Kedarnath from the village of Gaurikund, but the footpath was washed away and now they have to walk more than 20km (12 miles).
And I turned to her and said, "Yes, it is our local shop, and we're locals, so we should go in," and we were just about to do so, but were interrupted by a junkie hurtling out of the doorway to projectile vomit on the concrete footpath not three meters away.
Her nearest neighbors are on the other side of the mountain a mile and a half away by footpath.
Although it's a place you'll want to spend relaxed time in town, the sites of interest are scattered around the region and some are hidden away on footpaths in offbeat areas.
The church, several hundred feet away along a footpath, was a cinder-block structure with a simple altar and a dozen wooden pews.
