If you have advice for the hike, the site or the book, I’ll eat that up like crack. Send tips, ideas, requests and hopeless love letters to michael punctuation howtowalkacrossthecountry punctuation com. Or just comment below, or anywhere else on the site.
If you live or plan to live in Oregon, Idaho, Montana, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire or Maine and want a polite young man to show up at your door and ask to use your shower sometime in the year 2011, let me know about that, too.
If you’re somehow moved to help me financially, I’m baffled but grateful: I expect the trip to cost about $9,000, counting food, health insurance, cell phone, loan payments, a storage locker to hold my old Bill Cosby albums and a cushion for when I emerge unemployed on the other side. (See posts tagged “finance” for more.) You can drop a PayPal tip to existentialprotest punctuation gmail punctuation com. I’ve got a bank account set aside for the walk and I swear on my zombie mother’s grave that I’ll use it for the purpose, on schedule, or return you every cent. Every donor over $1 will one day receive: something complementary written about him or her on the walls of a public bathroom somewhere in this great country (and a picture to prove it).
News about other walkers
- Burmese pilgrims cross the USA | The Journal GazetteThe men’s walk has taken them through snow in Oregon and driving rain in Nebraska. They stay with volunteers, try to walk 30 miles a day, shed a few pounds and carry petitions.
- Damion MaynardMaynard is walking one mile for every United States soldier that has been killed in Iraq.
- Armand YoungIn each town he visits, he attempts to walk for a local cause and tries to enlist support from local residents. He has no set schedule and usually finds a cause once he arrives in a town, either through a local radio or newspaper interview or by stopping
- North Platte Nebraska's favorite newspaper - The North Platte BulletinI have walked over 10,000 miles since 1996, seeking allies and informing people that we can save this planet through the use of bamboo.
- Community Picks Up Walking Man's Mission of GivingHe's walking from California to Ground Zero in New York City and back, helping families in need, in memory of the victims of 9-11, and uniting strangers in a common cause.
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April 1, 2008 at 7:47 am
Jessica Andersen
I want something complimentary written about me in a bathroom! Remind me to give you $5 at Thanksgiving (or more - we’ll see how this stage management thing goes). And the site is awesome so far. You very much left me wanting more, and I don’t even know why, which seems to prove its brilliance.
Btw, it looks like you’ll be doing this during our second year in the Peace Corps. I guess we both turned out to be either stunningly adventurous, or idiots.
Your loving sister,
Jess