A letter to Henry David Thoreau

Dear Mr. Thoreau
I know that you cannot read this, seeing as you passed away many years ago. However, I would hope that you could learn as much from this letter as I have learned from you. I know that in your day, life was much more difficult. None the less, one may have never seen places, especially sites miles away from their homes (except by way of train), or even know of recent world news, if life had stayed the same as it was in your lifetime.
In this, the year two-thousand two, people do not have the ability to conceive of such primitive ways of living. In order to travel we go…