This paper engages with ethnographic encounters in a context where a child’s only means to commute is to walk or be on foot. This could be due to a number of reasons, including, but not limited to, a lack of infrastructure/access to public transportation and an inability to afford private transportation. In these contexts, all the places children traverse are on foot, be it traveling from home to school, cattle-grazing, bringing firewood or forest produce, running errands for the family, or leisure walking with friends. Our ethnographic fieldwork in Central India and the Himalayan regions of India and Nepal involved accompanying young people in their purposive and non-purposive walks. Calling it a method of “wayfinding” (Ingold 2022), we look at how walking unravels the potentialities and limitations of being on foot from children’s perspectives. We specifically look at the way children perceive ‘differences’ and boundaries that walking reveals to and imposes on them. These boundaries can be spatial, racial, gendered, and/or based on their class, caste, age, and abilities. Yet, walking also reveals the potentialities that young people create and negotiate in an adult-centric world. In our respective fieldworks, we find young people taking the lead on walks, foraging in the forests, cattle-grazing, and initiating conversations with ‘adult others’ who otherwise would be inaccessible to them. In these instances of walking, we find that children find their way to adulthood or life itself. We argue that this wayfinding is indicative of children deploying walking to make meaning and place in their worlds.