Damn, I don't think that's mildly interesting at all. That's a book I want to read
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/413371.Worldwalk
The book in question. He was housed by over 400 families while on his walk.
People really will find any excuse to leave ohio
Welp there you have it. If you want to challenge his conclusion you must walk long and hit more countries than he did.
Honestly it sounds more like he went in with a preconceived notion, received data that verified his preconceived notion was incorrect, and then told everyone his preconceived notion seemed correct.
Sounds like he had three bad experiences over 4 years. That sounds like, on average, the world is not such a bad place.
Wow even the guy that wanted to be the man that fell down at your door only walked 1000 miles. This is pretty hardcore.
Probably just really wanted to escape Ohio.
I wouldn't count a multiple day walk as a single walk.
When you get to sleep, it starts a new walk.
Otherwise I have been having a walk for my entire life.
I'd argue that if it's conceived of as a journey with a set end point - "I'm going to walk from Vancouver to Toronto", by way of example - you could consider it a single walk. If you're just walking everyday without a set end point in mind, I'd agree with you.
Maybe 'journey by foot' is the better phrase here, idk.
I've been a bunch of places all over the world and I would agree. The world isn't terrible.
All the assholes who live in it however...
Despite the horrid things that occur in this world, I do believe that people are fundamentally good and want to do good for the people around them. The people that do evil things were not born that way.
In my experience, the vast majority of people are good. Like 99.9% of them. But there's still evil people in this world. My grandmother is one, she's tried killing my siblings twice, (the first time looked like negligence, after the second she wasn't given another chance.) and gave her husband brain damage. Thankfully, she's not related to us by blood.
"I just gotta see this for myself."
It would be a white guy in the 1980s. “Yeah the world isn’t that terrible”
Dudes don’t even have to think twice walking to their car at night.
Did you read the post? Seems like he did have to think twice.
Absofuckinglutely, imagine being black and walking through rural counties in the US much less other countries. The average person "might" leave you alone but the police absolutely will not.
Well yeah, the world and by extension your life is mostly harmless. It's quite the statistical anomaly when you do get harmed but it's not to say it's impossible.
People do tend to get stuck in that awareness of chance of harm and often over prescribe it to certain parts to keep up the fear. That's probably cause people are also mostly stupidly uninformed.
How many roads must a man walk down?
I think it's an amazing story that he was able to find his way back home after walking such a long distance!
Most life-changing discovery: make videos of yourself bumming around the world and total strangers will send you money.
Sounds like an average playthrough of STALKER.
There were bandits in 1987??
Only three years later some bandits tried to break into a kids house over Christmas.
Still are in some parts of the world. Less arrows and swords more guns and machetes
Bro had no enemies, what a madlad
This is more than mildly interesting. That guy probably lived a very interesting life
Forest Gump?
SIR, YES SIR.
Daniel Pearl would like a word
Right? Do that now, you’ll get picked up by some extremist group.
Petition to rename this epic journey as "The Walk For The Ages".
I want a book, movie, and an epic ballad with at least a dozen dozen stanzas!
Walk... Hhard
How do we define a walk? Because I've almost certainly covered that distance in my life, and I've even slept outside and fended off bandits, sort of.
