From "He Felt Stuck in New York. So He Started Walking to California. A Bronx native who’d spent his whole life in the city left on foot in May" (NYT).
Here's his Instagram. Sample:
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"Rivera had never hiked before. He’d never been camping. For his trip across the United States, he chose the most direct route the map showed..."
"... which mostly meant walking on highway shoulders, drowning out the car traffic with his big headphones on.... 'You doing all right?' a law enforcement officer in Indiana asked. 'We got a call that you were pulling a cart and looked exhausted,' the officer continued. 'Just wanted to make sure you were all right.' 'Yeah, I’m good,' Rivera said. 'I’m walking across America.'... 'People are like, What are you doing?' Rivera said. 'What are you doing it for? When I tell them I’m walking across America — "Oh, what’s your reason?" You need to have a reason? I just want to be free. I’m just walking because I’m using my free will. That’s it.'"
From "He Felt Stuck in New York. So He Started Walking to California. A Bronx native who’d spent his whole life in the city left on foot in May" (NYT).
From "He Felt Stuck in New York. So He Started Walking to California. A Bronx native who’d spent his whole life in the city left on foot in May" (NYT).
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Racist cops harassing a poor POC pulling a cart on a highway shoulder.
Not sure I would want to drown out the traffic noise altogether if I were walking on the highway shoulder for 3000 miles.
Get that man a "not all who wander are lost" t-shirt.
Keep on Trucking.
Glad he made it. Walking 20-25 miles per day on Highway shoulders is dangerous. He must be in good shape to do that, and push a cart. According to google its 2900 miles, which means approximately 120-150 days.
If i was a cop in wyoming or nevada I'd pull over and talk to him too. Not only is walking on the highway shoulder dangerous, but pushing a cart codes him as "crazy homeless guy" who would need help.
…and then I was dun with thaaaaat…
Who's going to tell him San Francisco is a sh!thole city?
He's already got a shopping cart. He'll fit in like a needle in a stack of needles.
How often do those wheels need changing?
Is this a great country or what?
Paging Art Garfunkel.
By the end of the Instagram clip I was in love with him.
Did the cop ask about the likely stolen Safeway cart?
In love with him and this country both.
I am certain he purchased that cart fair and square!
Might read it, but I wonder about a guy that pitches his tent on a curve in the road. Even if it's a gravel road.
No one will stop you from living in a tent in America.
Cool! Best of luck, kid.
What’s the point? He’s not walking across America, he’s just hanging out on the freeway. If he wanted to see America, he should never have set foot on a major road.
1. “What’s the point?” It’s his point. You don’t see the merit of doing it, don’t do it.
2. Since when is walking on the shoulder of a highway dangerous? Arizona, California it’s not an unusual sight.
3. Day 149 he made it to the Pacific Ocean and was detained for his shopping cart - illegal in California to take a shopping cart off premises. Day 150 he woke up on a park bench so he must have resolved the problem with the cart which he said he got in Colorado.
4. Congrats. Well done.
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