Category Archives: Journeying

A journey is like a way of life.  The lessons learned long distance journeys inspired and informed a humanitarian philosophy and way of life.

Announcement: A Website for Care Partners and Journeyers

Posted on July 13, 2025 by Humanity Hiker

“Love kindness. Build community. Believe in humanity.” That quote is the tagline for this Humanity Hiker website. I created this website before our 5,000 mile walk across America. At the time I could not disclose that our main purpose was … Continue reading →

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The Journey of Life

Posted on March 10, 2026 by Humanity Hiker

I am engaged in a ten year endeavor I call “The Unenlightened Wisdom Project: Journeying from Brain Health to Democracy.” Some of the themes from that project overlap with this one and I occasionally will include excerpts. This first one … Continue reading →

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Journeying: Past and Future

Posted on November 13, 2025 by Humanity Hiker

Please provide suggestions for rural or beautiful places to go during a hike around the world. Continue reading →

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Past and Future

Posted on October 28, 2025 by Humanity Hiker

I am still working out the coverage kinks as I look forward to a time when I can post regularly on here and even go out to do presentations. The first two-thirds of this year was spent working out the … Continue reading →

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The Other Humanity Hiker

Posted on September 23, 2025 by Humanity Hiker

I asked a friend recently to Google Humanity Hiker, the simplified instruction for finding my 900+ blog posts over the past 15 years. After the research results she asked which one to click, pointing out to me that there are … Continue reading →

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Happy New Year 2023

Posted on January 3, 2023 by Humanity Hiker

In 2022 I blogged about our 2011-2012 walk across the country again, this time sharing the adventure while acknowledging Cindy’s cognitive decline as a motivating factor for the journey.  That ended in June and I submitted less than a handful … Continue reading →

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Coverage at Last!

Posted on October 1, 2022 by Humanity Hiker

This blog began with our walk across the country from 2011-2012, revisiting that journey again last year.  In between I reported on our hike of the PCT and how Cindy and I have done our best to live well despite … Continue reading →

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The ADT Journey – Final Days

Posted on May 24, 2022 by Humanity Hiker

We hung around the Housatonic Valley Association’s office long enough to greet the staff when they came into work.  They gave us each a new HVA cap, prompted to do so by the condition of my current HVA cap from … Continue reading →

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The ADT Journey – Week 52

Posted on May 20, 2022 by Humanity Hiker

Week 52 will be my second to last post reliving our walk across the country from ten years ago.  The final two days will be posted shortly after May 24, the tenth anniversary of when we finished the hike and … Continue reading →

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The ADT Journey – Week 51

Posted on May 13, 2022 by Humanity Hiker

With the finish line in sight, our pace picked up through New Jersey.  As this was not part of any official route we chose whatever local and state roads provided the most direct route.  We encountered a diversity of people … Continue reading →

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