The Man Who Walked Around the World

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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.

 

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mspath said:

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.

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Thank you
brilliant article
so many doing these journeys now

this is another guy cycling for charity from Alaska to Argentina

 

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• Apr 12, 2023

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mspath said:

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.

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Thanks for sharing this article. A great story.

 

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• Apr 12, 2023

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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.

 

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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!!

 

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mspath said:

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

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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.

 

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• Feb 8, 2024

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There was also this canadian man.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/jean-b%C3%A9liveau-s-11-years-on-the-road-1.1070673

 

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I've been following Australian Alexander Campbell on Instagram as he walks around the world. He started a year ago, and is currently in Bangladesh.

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