a walk across america

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They were proposing starting in Los Angeles when I piped up and volunteered that if the route began in San Francisco instead, I'd be willing to plan the route through California. ... We laid out a route about 265 miles long, designed to be traversed in twenty-one hiking days. ... We obtained permission to walk across the Bay Bridge, ... the first time this had ever been done. ... A group ranging from one to two hundred people hiked across California.

A decade later, my son Eric and his wife Ellen were recruited by the American Hiking Society and Backpacker magazine to scout the route of the American Discovery Trail, the first coast-to-coast trail. That route incorporates the one Helen and I scouted from Berkeley to Sacramento, a contribution that makde us proud.

— Glenn Seaborg, Adventures in the Atomic Age, p258-259.

Comments

[squarkz.livejournal.com]

if i didn't like him before, i sure do now.

[kaolinfire.livejournal.com]

dude.

:jealous: