No matter how, where, or why you are traveling, you will do a lot of walking. You’ll walk in cities, you’ll walk toward the beach, you’ll walk trying to get to a bar in Reykjavik before happy hour ends, you’ll walk to see the seventh identical waterfall in Costa Rica, you’ll walk to get to a viewpoint so you can see the lake from a slightly higher point of view (hence the name, viewpoint), you’ll walk toward the better buffet on the 4th floor (deck? I don’t like boats) on a cruise.
Sometimes the whole point of a trip will be walking, if you’re doing a long-distance hike or if you just run out of money in Thailand and have to walk everywhere. The point I’m making is that you will be walking a lot. Even in everyday life. Unless you live in the States. Then you probably drive.
But anyway, the best advice I can give you is that while you are walking, just walk. Don’t do anything else. Don’t post online about your walk. Don’t try to unscrew a bottle cap and drink water just to find that it’s permanently stuck on because of some EU rule. Don’t try to take off your mid-layer because all of the walking is making you hot. Don’t try to find a chopstick that is somewhere in the big pocket of your backpack. It is lost forever. Don’t even look at the scenery. Because if you don’t watch where you’re putting your foot, you will trip. And fall.
Best-case scenario, you will look stupid tripping on a rail track and a local in Vietnam will laugh and point at you. Worst-case scenario, you fall, your hiking pole impales your skull, and you die.
So, if you want to do anything while walking, stop walking. Do the stuff, and then continue walking. This advice applies to everyday life as well. Stop, do stuff, go.
Maybe it’s not only about walking. Maybe it’s also something deeper. But mostly it’s about walking.