Given Paul's Macedonian itinerary in the readings, thinking about Skopje and Pirin. Really wondering if I should have risked everything and ventured beyond the turn-around time, spent the return fare on another rental. Fortune sometimes favors the idiotic in that respect, and I walked into a difficult and dangerous time here on my return. (And ongoing.)
But there's also a moral obligation to the places that you visit. You arrive with bread for the journey, pay fairly, and leave the place clean. You don't just cast yourself upon the shore like some small-boat migrant or Norman duke.
I was actually on the Via Egnatia when I was in Epidamnus (Durres). Rather dreary stretch of modern road, at least for the first few miles from the shore. Unlike my experiences in several other cities, I didn't actually walk on the stones -- merely the vector from the ocean.