Cool old article about long distance walkers

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lunna

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• Mar 29, 2019

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https://www.atlasobscura.com/articl...CEwUYdyhJZFnKNF0B2HzWbBwdI-AGYsnP-1PNXyBAWXD4

 

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• Mar 29, 2019

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lunna said:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articl...CEwUYdyhJZFnKNF0B2HzWbBwdI-AGYsnP-1PNXyBAWXD4

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Thanks so much for posting that. Dutch friends have told me that there are many “Kennedy walks” in the Netherlands, in recognition of his walk in 1963, but I had no idea there was an organized group here in the US doing the same thing.

https://www.kennedy50.org/about-1

(And I should add that a pair of Altras Lone Peaks is the footwear of choice of at least one of the walkers!).

 

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• Mar 30, 2019

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Happy to share! Around NYC, where I live, there's also a group called Freewalkers, and they specialize in 25 mile plus walks (and the occasional 50-miler, as well). They just did the Kennedy walk from Washington, DC to Harpers Ferry, West Virginia a couple of weeks ago, in fact.