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A guy I went to high school with is in the process of walking across the United States. He's pushing his gear in a cart that looks like a baby carriage. His first week on the road, someone frantically called the cops to report a man walking down the road with a dead baby in a stroller.

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I think you may be referring to this guy. He did an AMA on reddit [1]. He also posts updates on his instagram[2].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/4iqo3g/im_the_guy_wal...

[2] https://www.instagram.com/bendoeslife/

Different dude... This guy is going the opposite direction. Good guy going on a pretty neat adventure.

https://altamontenterprise.com/05062016/one-step-time

Man, how many people are doing this? There was a guy on the Something Awful forums who tried this, but his cart was a tow-behind bicycle trailer that he was pushing by hand and a wheel broke after less than 20 miles... also he hadn't been eating anything so he called an Uber and went home. It's probably for the best because his route took him through Nevada and New Mexico in the height of summer.

Does your friend also cite Hobo Nick as inspiration?

>walking across the United States

Long back I had read an article or series in National Geographic about an American who did that - walked from coast to coast. Great story.

Probably https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Walk_Across_America :

> Walk Across America is a nonfiction travel book first published in 1979. It was the first book written by travel author Peter Jenkins, with support from the National Geographic Society. The book depicts his journey from Alfred, New York to New Orleans, Louisiana. While upon his journey of self-discovery, he surmounted the travails of travel, engaged himself in others' lives, lost his best friend, experienced a religious conversion, and courted a new wife.

I read that Wikipedia page you linked to, and others linked from it. Interesting stuff. The info about "The Farm" :) (where Jenkins stayed for a while) and "The Publishing Company" run by The Farm made for nice reading about alternative / appropriate tech, etc. People were doing this years ago. I've mentioned this in a few forums, about people like E. F. Schumacher. Done a bit of it myself, like biogas plants, organic gardening, etc.

Cool. I think it is the same person.

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