I had chosen to walk alongside the Hudson on this day, a choice that on the one hand allowed me to attentively stride onward without worrying about losing my way, and yet on the other hand provided few opportunities for me to fluidly stop and interact with others. And so it was that I walked […]
Arriving at and crossing over the George Washington Bridge felt like a pretty big deal at the time – for one I had crossed my Walk’s first state-line (from New York into New Jersey at the Hudson River’s midpoint), and for another I was finally walking southward towards the Walk’s supposed destination. Still, even though […]
“Fear is the glue that keeps you stuck. Courage is the solvent that sets you free … You will shiver & shake in the face of summoned greatness. And yet remember in those moments of test & truth that everything must break open in order to one day blossom and thrive. The seed must break […]
After a long day of walking and with the Sun already beginning to set, I left the George Washington Bridge behind and entered the town of Fort Lee, New Jersey. Darkness was clearly on the near horizon and my body was aching pretty strongly, so I headed for the nearest church steeple to see if […]
Even though I experienced a dearth of compassion & warmth on this first very long and at times quite disheartening American day, there were flashes of loving brilliance that were found – the first of which coming from Akin; an ice cream parlor owner whose nonvegan ice cream was respectfully declined but whose very vegan […]
After pausing for a time on the raised front stoop of the Ascension Greek Orthodox Catholic Church (and thinking at first that I would simply lay down there to sleep), I stumbled on into the late night; eventually into the township of North Bergen, where I tried to sleep on two different city benches without […]
On & on & on I stumbled through that night – into & through the townships of Guttenberg and West New York and Union City in turn. It was in the latter that I spontaneously decided to head more towards the Hudson River, and I did so winding along a series of little used and […]
I think it almost goes without saying that I didn’t get the best night’s sleep on the high-rise’s front staircase (maybe a few fitful hours, at best), and so I shrugged my shoulders, got up, smiled gently, and hobbled off into the still-dark very-early morn … “What embodies the greatest meaning (and thereby garners the […]
I made it without incident into the town of Hoboken and ask three wandering youths the best walking route to Jersey City. They were kind enough in their intentions, and yet wholly clueless about local geography, as their advice sent me headlong into one dead-end after another. And yet true to this Walk’s miraculous form, […]
And then, after waking gratefully and proceeding onward resolutely, the Sun began to rise in earnest, and I looked to my left and realized that I had made it back to the original latitude of my American adventure’s beginning – that, after walking some 20 miles northward to make it across the Hudson River into […]
I made it into and through the towns (cities, really) of Newport & Jersey City, and then onward (with a little directional assistance from two kind paramedics, who were both openly astounded over the Walk’s Way) into Lafayette, where the Clair Memorial United Methodist Church beckons to me, and I enter just in time to […]
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