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Why do most of us not understand the need for a great adventure
Did you know that ten people have walked around the world?
Yea, me either until a quick little google search.
“The Edge… There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Hell’s Angels
I did know of 2 people recently; one was a woman named Angela Maxwell, and the most recent one was Tom Turcich and his dog Savannah.
Yes, he walked with a dog. I have been following him on Instagram since 2020. They just completed their journey in May 2022, and it took them seven years, including spending all of 2020 on the road.
The first person to do this was a man named Dave Kunst. His motivation for doing it is because it was something that had never been done before. He and his brother John started the walk in June 1970, but John did not finish the walk with him.
John was murdered in Afghanistan.
“Dave, I love walking around the world,” “It’s a great adventure, and I love it. If I die walking around the world, you tell mom and dad I died happy.” Dave recalls…
