Manifest Destiny: America from the Bottom Up - Travel Record, Sleeping Places (PDF's), Book Idea Updates and the Future

Travel Record and Sleeping Places

The following links might be interesting PDF's to peruse and download...

1. Travel Record - Revised and updated. For the current and revised Travel Record details including: each row has the day number of the journey, each associated week day name, calendar dates (with highlighted month changes), city and state where each day begins and where each day ends, method of transport (walk, car, train, bus), miles traveled that day, sleep conditions (outside, motel, house or in transit), length of time in each state, length of time in each region, specific outside locations, host name, or motel names of sleeping places, room numbers if known, and people met along the way; a summation of the number of walks, car rides, train and bus rides, with total miles for each of those activities, and summation of the number of sleeping places types. 

2. Images of Outside Sleeping Places - Thirty four sleeping places are detailed in 32 images from Google Satellite locations, and detail the exact spot where camping was done. The numbers of the days listed should exactly match the Travel Record. Both documents are meant to complement each other.   

The book will list all financial contributors, but will not associate them with the amounts they gave. A few souls will be recognized above and beyond other donors for some of the extremes they went to to help the effort succeed--without me having to die in the process.

Book Idea Updates

As most folks know the Kickstarter Campaign for book publication was not successfully funded. The effort was a long shot to begin with. I'd hoped that strangers, angel investors or other interested parties might discover the project and want to contribute to it. But only those who had already given so much during the crossing pledged. It was far from their responsibility to then fund the publication of the book. They already did more than enough. Some other way must now be found.

The Future

I'm not so deluded as to think all of this will remain relevant to you, or to the public, nor that it is important enough to the world to be so repletely published as I have described above. However, I have found it enormously satisfying and gratifying personally so far to gather as much as I can about what happened. Also I want to see it as a springboard for greater efforts to come.

There are many reasons why highly detailing this journey could be useful. I will likely do some kinds of similar projects in the future if I am able. Having a very complete data set would certainly be both wise for future preparation and an excellent way to propose new ideas to investors, outside of our little community. Currently about 1,000 people have remained interested and make up the core of said community. That is more than enough to seed a future viral growth.

I am not opposed to the idea of being sponsored by interested corporations in future endeavors. I'd hoped that might happen with this last journey, but it did not materialize. I thought that more media coverage might have come, but similarly it was not to be.

I am currently trying to build investment eggs for these future projects, here in California. I will be honest, and say that I have no desire at all to slip back into the societal "game." I will participate just as long as it serves to benefit these projects. But if I am not able to do them, I will convert the money saved into a self sustaining property, not unlike that described in my other blog (selfsustainingproperty.blogspot.com). I would be as happy to live simply, produce what I need from the sweat of my brow, around my own land, as I would be traveling the highways and byways of this planet. In fact it may end up allowing BOTH to happen.

Other Thoughts

I seem to have made a habit out flaying myself and opening up my private thoughts publicly. I've discussed many times why I do this potentially self destructive activity. I think I am providing a method by which my soul can migrate from the inside to the outside of my self. Being brutally honest about other people can be a terrible idea. But being that honest about one's self can be a way of keeping the ego in check, while giving other people a safe way to say to themselves, "Hey! I think that way too sometimes--but I would never tell everybody!" Ha!

I feel that as long as I have something to say to the world and the world wants to listen occasionally--even if it means me doing some embarrassing and stupid stuff to keep peoples' attentions, even calling it "entertainment," I am going to take advantage of that situation to work toward POSITIVE social and individually spiritual (non-religious, non-ideological) change. Evolution. Progress. Enlightenment. Edification...  

Many of you already know how strongly I feel about the impending nature of what some have called "The Shift" and I have called the "New Advent." I am both driven by my own fault-filled ambition, but also led by something much greater than myself - an inner entity that I have claimed we all possess; one I ended up naming the "Spark."

Unless I end up falling back into the pit I struggled with before I left Maine in October, and simply give up for lack of progress or self-defeatism, I will NEVER stop trying to do new things that will highlight the better future that is coming, the need for each of us to think for ourselves and the Power of togetherness to change individual lives and maybe even help transform the entire world.

I believe in the efficacy of dreaming, pushing, willing myself forward. I truly know that anyone can do it. If you are going to dream, there should be no other choice but to dream BIG. Dream for yourself. Dream for you family and friends. Dream for this tiny blue speck of a world spinning around a nondescript star, skirting the edges of the Milky Way Galaxy. Hell, even dream for the whole Universe. We are in desperate need of Big Dreams right here on earth.

I may not ever be recognized formally for anything. But that is okay, as long as I have helped one or two people use what I have done and said, to implement and enhance their own strategies for planetary improvement, I will be one happy roadside camper.

The coast to coast crossing is over, but the Real Journey has only begun. I will stay with you, if you stay with me.

Much Love to All!