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Mark Baumer Walks Across USA, Blogs it, Gives Urlesque Epic Interview

• Aug 23, 2010 from Urlesque(Urlesque)
  Filed under: In Real Life, Photos, ExclusivesI have followed Mark Baumer's cross-continental journey for months. He spent months walking across the country, and not like that Levi's-sponsored video. He actually did it. And he told the tale on his blog as he walked via his phone. Here is his story.
  
  Before he began answering my questions, he wrote:
  
  My feet are still numb. I have not walked in two and a half weeks and my toes still do not have feeling. I cannot put on sandals with my eyes closed. The tips of my toes are tingling. My immune system is suffering too. I have been sick a week. I took two Benadryl so I will be tired soon.
  Read on for a fascinating interview with Mark about running around naked and bloody down the highway, among other things.
  
  Urlesque: Tell us a bit about yourself and your background.
  
  Baumer: In the winter of my twenty-fifth year I asked my girlfriend for $70 so I could apply to the MFA writing program at Brown. Someone began giving me money to create content for a pet website. I began going to movies every Friday. Los Angeles began to fill the hole burrowed into my belief in an idea I was now somewhat capable of forming. A few months passed. I made pictures of cats with thought bubbles and dogs wearing sunglasses. A man named Gail who worked at Brown called me and asked if I wanted to move to Providence and attend the university. I said, "Sure," and asked if they would give me money. Gail said, "I personally won't give you money, but someone will give you money." I moved to Providence. Someone gave me money. I used some of the money to walk across America.
  
  
  
  What inspired you to embark on this journey?
  
  My dad said he would give me a million dollars if I walked across America. Somewhere in Louisiana I remembered my father didn't have a million dollars. I became very sad. I almost gave up on the trip, but a man in a pickup stopped and said, "I will give you a million dollars if you let me be your father." I thought of this man in the pickup hugging me and kissing my forehead. I got scared. I started walking again. The pickup left. I began to cry. I continued walking. I did not stop. I forgave my father for not being a millionaire.
  
  Got any advice for would-be cross-country trekkers?
  
  Before I began the trip I visited many bookstores and looked at thousands of shelves full of guidebooks on how to walk. I Googled the idea of walking on the internet and came up with 64 million in less than 0.241833 seconds. I did not read a single sentence about how to walk across the United States before I left. Everything and everyone in the world will try to give you advice on any journey you decide to take. I suggest you ignore them all. Let the road take you where it wants you to go. Throw yourself into a trip. Use your common sense. If you try to gather every piece of advice before you leave you will never leave. A journey isn't a journey if you have every footstep planned out.
  
  
  
  What was your strategy for staying fed, hydrated, etc.?
  
  Strategy #1 lasted about two days and consisted of five cans of tuna, ten carrot cake Clif bars, a jar of peanut butter, two 1L Nalgene bottles I repeatedly refilled with water, an empty 3L camelback water sack that remained unfilled, and a bag of almonds. For two days I stopped at every gas station I passed to fill up my water bottles and wash my hands. I ate four Clif bars. At gas stations and convenience stores I either bought an apple or banana or a bag of overpriced trail mix. I did not eat any almonds. I ate Subway twice. I did not feel very hungry the first two days. I ate because I figured it was important to eat.
  
  Strategy #2 lasted about three hours and consisted of a Starbucks iced tea and leftover pork chops. On the third day of my trip I stopped in Statesboro, Georgia and drank an iced tea and then went to Wal-Mart. Outside of Wal-Mart a woman asked if I wanted to spend the night in her family's guest bedroom. I said I would. She brought me home and fed me porkchops.
  
  Strategy #3 spanned maybe five or six days. In Statesboro, Georgia I bought a baby carriage. I filled it with canned tuna, trail mix, peanut butter, and apple sauce. There was no order to what I bought. I stopped for sandwiches when there was a place to stop for sandwiches. One time I was looking for a place to buy a sandwich but they were all closed so I got a haircut and when I finished with the haircut a lady said, "Let's go eat some fried chicken and cane syrup." So I went with the lady and ate the fried chicken and drank sweet tea.
  
  Strategy #4 lasted about three hours in Macon, Georgia and consisted of sitting around while a friend of a friend grilled some meat and vegetables. It was one of the most relaxing moments of the entire trip. I sat on the floor cross-legged and ate the grilled meat and vegetables. In the morning I ate a bowl of cereal.
  
  Strategy #5 was a return of sorts to strategy #3. The only difference is I now carried an emergency gallon jug of water in...