Supportive friends and a bit of lateral thinking meant I always found a way to travel like everyone else my age, even if this meant wandering around Indian villages looking for a fridge in which to store my drugs.
However, there are situations in which the process mean wanders.
Airline delays used to mean wandering zombielike around an airport, bored, stressed-out, eating mediocre food (or not eating at all if the restaurants and bars had closed early) and thinking dark thoughts.
The word he uses for going for a walk, "gulyat", means to wander around, but when street children say it, it can mean variously "wander around", "hang out", and even "beg".
After a bizarre climax -- involving a shoot-out and an a cappella version of "Free Bird" -- the characters (or do I mean the cast?) wander around looking dazed, as if blinking through the haze of a severe collective hangover and trying to remember just what happened the night before.
One participant who had taken amitriptyline for over 2 years reported no side-effects but implied the drug made no difference to her symptoms "I honestly don't see any difference really, I mean I was wandering around at 3 o'clock this morning…I couldn't sleep…".
I got the job and, on my first day of work, quickly realized that I didn't have any specific supervisor and was apparently meant to just wander around and offer myself up to move a table or fence or whatever to anyone who might need me.
A guitar player wanders around, strumming.
"But he wanders around, talks to scientists, reaffirms his impressions.
A wise and caring mentor can mean the difference between wandering around aimlessly and striding purposefully down the path of academic life and beyond.
