Longest Walk Ever

List of longest walks From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • Length: 15,509 miles (24,959 km) • Date: April 1983 – April 1987 • Details: Ohio 28-year-old Steven Newman crossed 21 countries on a four-year solo walk. His motive was a "deep urge to find out if (the world) was really such a terrible place as everybody was saying." He concluded that it wasn't, even though he was arrested several times, attacked by bandits and a drunken construction worker, and had to fend off wild boars and other creatures.[37][38]

A cropped Wikipedia-style entry describes Steven Newman’s four-year, 15,509-mile solo walk across 21 countries. The punchline is that he concluded the world was not a terrible place despite being arrested, attacked by bandits and a drunken construction worker, and fending off wild boars. It is used as an absurd reaction to situations that are clearly terrible but are still judged positively. EN: A cropped Wikipedia-style entry describes Steven Newman’s four-year, 15,509-mile solo walk across 21 countries. The punchline is that he concluded the world was not a terrible place despite being arrested, attacked by bandits and a drunken construction worker, and fending off wild boars. It is used as an absurd reaction to situations that are clearly terrible but are still judged positively.

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