The Man Who Walked Around the World

[mspath]

Simon Hattenstone in The Guardian, 11 April 2023 describes the 7 year walk completed by Tom Turcich from New Jersey, USA, as he searched for meaning in life and happily found it one step at a time.

 

[Annette london]

Simon Hattenstone in The Guardian, 11 April 2023 describes the 7 year walk completed by Tom Turcich from New Jersey, USA, as he searched for meaning in life and happily found it one step at a time.

Thank you
brilliant article
so many doing these journeys now

this is another guy cycling for charity from Alaska to Argentina

 

[Kirkie]

Simon Hattenstone in The Guardian, 11 April 2023 describes the 7 year walk completed by Tom Turcich from New Jersey, USA, as he searched for meaning in life and happily found it one step at a time.

Thanks for sharing this article. A great story.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

I remember reading a book in the mid-sixties published in the mid-fifties titled Around the World on Eighty Dollars. The author even got a pharmaceutical company to pick up the tab.

 

[mspath]

Around the World on 80 Dollars by Robert Christopher publishef 1953 helped start me dreaming of adventure travel when a teenager.

Reading guides like that led to the first European trip in 1959 at 20 biking from London to Rome in 4 months on a Raleigh 3 speed bike!! ... What exhaustion! What memories!!

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Around the World on 80 Dollars by Robert Christopher publishef 1953 helped start me dreaming of adventure travel when a teenager.

Amazing that anyone knows of the book, nevermind have read it. It's been about 60 years since I read it but there has been a good number of times when I thought it deserved a re-read. I really only remember the author being brought in the back of a truck into Afghanistan by smugglers and his breaking into an office in Burma to stamp his own passport.