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A walk.
Through time,
In time,
And beyond time.
History of the Walk

See the Logistics of the Walk.
Original Departure Date: August 28, 1983
From Arlington, Texas.

Finished the Fifty States of America in February of 1987 (3 years and 6 months).

After a five year Hiatus...
On March 16, 1992: Landed in Dublin, Ireland to march in the St. Patrick's Day Parade on March the 17th... to finish the rest of the World.

During The Walk of the Fifty-States of America:

I mailed 142 self-addressed postcards from every State, for verification purposes.

Collected over two thousand names in all Fifty -states.

Gave two hundred newspaper interviews.
 
Interviewed by 100 plus Television Stations for the Nightly News.

Gave twenty Radio interviews.

Spoke in all Fifty- states to various Colleges, Universities, Elks, Rotarians, Kiwanis, Lions, Professional Clubs, High Schools, Primary Schools, Mountain and Hiking Clubs, Boy Scouts and the Girl Scouts.

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The Fifty-State Walk Of America

Logistics of the Walk
Back to History of the Walk
248 days or Eight months per. year of walking to and in between Villages, Communities, Towns and Cities.

In walking the Fifty-states of America, plus the length of British Columbia. The Yukon Territory via The Chilkoot Trail, on into Whitehorse then into Dawson. Then down into Alaska.

Translates into:
248 days x 3.5 years
868 days x 15 miles per. day
:
868 days
13,020 miles
Approximately four months out of the year for Sight-seeing, Miscellaneous Time and a little R&R in the Villages, Towns and Cities of the World. And keeping in condition, when I am not on the road. You know what they say; 'All huffing and puffing and no play, makes Hawk a dull boy'.
Translates into:
409 days x 5 miles per day
..2,045 miles
13,020 miles
15,065 Total miles in 3 years
Walking the Rest of the World up to this point. 53 Countries.
248 days x 7 years
1,736 days x 15 miles

Four months each year for the Miscellaneous...

..1,736 days
26,046 miles
117 days x 7 years
819 days x 5 miles
.....819 days
.4,095 miles
26,046
Total
Add the Three and a half years
30,191 in 7 years
15,065

45,256 Total Mileage/10 and a half years

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Stage #1

Walked all Fifty-States

Dates: August 28, 1983 - February 10, 1987
14,000 plus miles


Stage #2

Rest of the World

Dates: March 16,1992 -

Ireland - Scotland - England

Belgium - Luxemburg - Netherlands

[Note] November of 1992, winter set in, retreated down into France and Spain.


France

Spain


[Note] Returned to France in the spring of 1993.

Then up into Germany and the Scandinavian Countries

Germany - Denmark - Norway

Sweden - Finland - Estonia


Russia
[St. Petersburg, Novgorod, Moscow, Ryazen, Tomtov, Saratov and Volgograd]

Belarus

Poland
[Note] Bus back down into France, Spain and and Gibraltar.

Morocco - Algeria - Tunisia


Italy - Switzerland - Liechtenstein

Austria - Czech Republic - Slovakia

Croatia - Slovenia - Yugoslavia

Hungry - Romania - Bulgaria

Turkey - Greece - Mt Athos

Cypress - Jordan - Israel


Northeast Africa

Egypt - Sudan - Ethiopia

Kenya - Tanzania - Zanzibar

Malawi - Zambia - Zimbabwe

Botswana - Namibia - South Africa
[Note] Returned to Zimbabwe, plane to India.

India - Nepal - China

Vietnam - Thailand - Cambodia

Malaysia - Singapore - Indonesia

New Zealand
 
 
South America
 
Argentina  Uruquay  Boliva

Chile  Peru  Ecuador  Colombia

Panama  Costa Rica  Nicaragua 

 
 

Last mileaged check was in November of the year 2006  appromately 80,000 miles had been walked.

Still to be walked: Finish South America and Mexico. Crossing the Mexican border into Texas, The Odyssey will be completed [2010] give or take a year or two. And the "Hawk" will have landed.
 
The end of the Story, not quite.

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