Peter Jenkins Set Out to Walk Across America and Ended Up Finding Himself a New

http://people.com ^ | March 19, 1979 | Patricia Newman

[daniel1212]

Peter Jenkins was of the Watergate generation, a cynic who picked up his college diploma and a 75-pound backpack and set off, as he puts it, “to give this country one last chance.” Now more than five years and 4,750 miles later, he is a believer. “I have America in every cell of my body,” he exults, “and I could feel God everywhere.”..

By the time Jenkins reached the Mississippi he was no longer a vegetarian. A poor mountain man in Virginia, who offered Jenkins a lamb chop, had made him feel foolish about his no-meat diet. Once a “hyper environmentalist” he now is pro-oil. “It’s that activity that makes the country strong,” he explains. “America would shut down without it.”..

Paradoxically, just as Jenkins’ self-reliance peaked, he walked into a revival meeting in Mobile, Ala. and found himself “humbled before God.”...

After a while I realized I was torturing Barbara. Women just aren’t as suited to this as men.” Feminists might disagree but not Barbara, 30....

Many of their newfound friends, whom Jenkins refers to as “my American heroes,” flew to Oregon for the couple’s final day on the road. They included ranchers, housewives and an Oregon preacher who had guided the Jenkinses over the Cascades in 30-below-zero weathe

But that last day in Florence, Oreg. danger and pain were forgotten. With their Good Samaritans cheering, the couple stormed the dunes and rushed into the churning Pacific surf.

[daniel1212]

This is from 1979. I remember reading this book and "the walk West" and what Jenkins discovered in contrary to the propaganda he had swallowed, and think it is it fitting to post it today. Ignore the rest on people.com,

Book can be had as cheap as 4.24 at Amazon :

134 Used from $0.25

[Gay State Conservative]

Either the heading of this piece is poorly written or someone needs to be introduced to the word “anew”.

[daniel1212]

These are obvious excerpts due to people.com limitations. http://people.com/archive/peter-jenkins-set-out-to-walk-across-america-and-ended-up-finding-himself-a-new-wife-vol-11-no-11/ Tells the rest.

[Joe 6-pack]

I was a kid at the time but his walk was featured in a couple editions of Nat Geo. He ran into some amazing people along the way.

[Fiddlstix]

[sevlex]

I read this 20-something years ago.

It was the original Red-Pilling.

[b4me]

i didn’t realize Virginia is close to the mississippi river.

[daniel1212]

Either the heading of this piece is poorly written or someone needs to be introduced to the word “anew”. No, the headline is not "anew" but Peter Jenkins Set Out to Walk Across America and Ended Up Finding Himself a New Wife

I thought "wife" was not the main thing and that I was close to the limit of words which FR allows in a title, so I left it at "New"

[Kirkwood]

Uh, no.

[.45 Long Colt]

I read both of the books on his walk when they came out and loved them both. Cooper’s death was worse than Bambi’s mother.

[Kirkwood]

Within walking distance.

[ClearCase_guy]

A Gnu

[daniel1212]

I was a kid at the time but his walk was featured in a couple editions of Nat Geo. He ran into some amazing people along the way.

And NatGeo wanted to edit out his conversion story, but at a last meeting a head person asked him what his most profound experience was. Jenkins said it was his conversion, and the head guy responded, "Make sure that's included." All this is a paraphrase of what I read from Jenkins.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Bookmark

[daniel1212]

Ofr course its not , and the description simply says,

By the time Jenkins reached the Mississippi he was no longer a vegetarian. A poor mountain man in Virginia, who offered Jenkins a lamb chop, had made him feel foolish about his no-meat diet.

I guess it should have said "A poor mountain man way back in Virginia," in case someone saw it as placing the two together, or "By the time Jenkins reached the Carolina's he was no longer a vegetarian," if in fact he had finally concluded he was done with it. But maybe we need not be so fault-finding.

[WASCWatch]

I also read both books. They are great.

[bagster]

A poor mountain man in Virginia, who offered Jenkins a lamb chop, had made him feel foolish about his no-meat diet.

I'd love to know exactly what this "mountain man" said to this guy so I could tell it to the vego-fags I know.

[RayChuang88]

What's interesting is that radio talk show host Michael Medved did something almost the same with his hitchhiking trips across the county, as noted from a chapter of this book Right Turns.

It was those trips that made him argue with another college student about the merits of the movie Easy Rider, saying that the premise of the movie is wrong. That other college student: a person by the name of Hillary Rodham.

[Robert DeLong]

Here is the full title:

Peter Jenkins Set Out to Walk Across America and Ended Up Finding Himself a New Wife.

Still think it should be anew? 8>)

[Crucial]

Yeah, if you walked across Kentucky.