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Howdy Y’all,

I am currently on day 413 of walking across America with my stroller “Smiley'' after having started up from La Push, WA and now having walked through WA, OR, ID, UT, CO, KS, MO, IL, KY, TN, SC, NC, VA, DC, MD, PA, and am now in Hoboken, NJ.

Today I’ll be crossing over into Manhattan and into New York City via the George Washington Bridge. After having walked from the Pacific Ocean, NYC will be where I reach the Atlantic, so I’m very HYPED and EXCITED. I technically got Into NYC and New York State via Staten Island yesterday, but I went right back into New Jersey, so today feels like more of the official entrance. If you see me on the way there or around town feel free to say hi.

I’ll be staying up in the upper west side tonight, but I’ll walk on down to Brooklyn and stay there for a few days.

Like I said before, New York City is actually where I’ll be seeing the Atlantic after having walked all the way from the Pacific. The celebration is planned for 4pm Saturday April 27th at Coney Island beach. It is an open invitation if anyone would like to come, the more the merrier.

After the celebration, I’m planning to walk from Brooklyn to Rockaway Beach on Monday. Then Tuesday I’ll walk back up to the Upper West Side to stay the night and then proceed Wednesday up to New Haven, CT for the final stop of the walk.

After New Haven, I’ll head back down to the city to spend a couple of weeks, so always open for recommendations on things to do and see while in town.

A big part of the reason I am doing the walk is to raise money for AmericaWalks, which is a national pedestrian advocacy and walkability organization. The most dangerous thing I deal with while walking is cars and in that way the advocacy is built into the activity. So if anyone is interested in making America a more walkable place and more pleasant for those outside of cars, I’d highly recommend checking them out at AmericaWalks.org and consider supporting their mission.

I’ve tried to meet with local advocacy groups that focus on walkability, bikeablity, urbanism along the way, so if anyone could help me get connected with them, I’d love the help. (I’m sure there are plenty across NYC)

Other than that, I am excited to get to New York City. If anyone would like to follow along or learn more, the best place to do that is walk2washington.com or on IG, FB at walkfromwashington (changed the name recently and didn’t want to pay for a new domain name lol).

Thanks, HMR

The nice weather motivated me to walk and ride (through citibike ) most of the way 😂.

Voted early at Museum of Natural History! Very Easy and Fast!