Neil King Jr. spent 26 days walking north to NYC. King spent most of his ramble in Pa., crossing the Mason-Dixon Line into York County from Md., then crossing Susquehanna into Lancaster County.
york city in order to pay homage to the land and find out what concluded tell him the result is a 368 page memoir, tying our history to the present, providing discussions around our buried past and our many collective myths. the book is entitled american ramble, a walk of memory and renewal. and neil joins us now. i really appreciate your coming on the show. congratulations on the book. tell us why you decided to take this walk, this long walk? you know, i walked out my door at the end of march 2021. we were in a really bad pickle as a country i live nine blocks from the capital, which had been under siege a couple of months before. i just wanted to go out in the country, walk slowly, and take in the story between my house and new york city, i called it the founding swath of the country, so much of the foundational moments of our