The Walk of Gratitude
The Walk of Gratitude
How to Stay Up-to-Date and Opportunities to Join Me:
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- Fill out this form if you’d like to walk with me, host a gathering in your community, host me, support the walk or get involved in any other way.
- Come back to this webpage for updates.
Route and Schedule
This public document shares my most up to date route and schedule including estimations of when I’ll be walking through different cities.
I am walking the Pacific Coast from the border of Canada/Washington to Los Angeles. I am primarily following the Pacific Coast Highway (highway 101 and 1). Specifically I am following the Pacific Coast Route of the American Cycling Association.
I keep my schedule and route published and updated to facilitate ease for those who would like to come find me or organize a gathering in their community as I travel through.
Leg 1: US/Canada border to Port Townsend, WA (100 miles): 7/28 – 8/4 COMPLETE
Leg 2: Port Townsend to Oregon border (190 miles): ~8/8 – 8/29 with a long stop in Port Townsend to distribute Food Freedom. COMPLETE
Leg 3: Oregon (370 miles): 9/2 – 10/7 COMPLETE
Leg 4: Oregon border to San Francisco (445 miles): October 7th to November 27th COMPLETE
Leg 5: San Francisco to Los Angeles (520 miles): December 1st to Jan 26th
Santa Barbara to Los Angeles Community Walk
Due to fire risks and an unpredictable schedule, the community walk has been canceled. Feel free to email if you’d like to walk or support. I am currently in Ventura/Ojai and I will resume walking from Ventura on January 22nd, with a 5 day walk to Griffith Park, completing the walk on January 26th.
Gatherings
Read our update message on the fires here.
Los Angeles Arrival – January 26th – Griffith Park – 3-5 PM
This is the official completion of the walk from Canada to Los Angeles. I will give away everything I own at this gathering, entering into an experiment of complete non-ownership. See the Experiment of Non-Ownership for details.
Past Gatherings:
July 28th: Blaine, Washington
July 30th: Bellingham, Washington
August 3rd: Oak Harbor on Whidbey Island, Washington
August 20th-21st – Port Townsend, Washington
August 30th-31st – Portland, Oregon
September 5th – Wheeler, Oregon
September 15th– Eugene, Oregon
September 23rd – Florence, Oregon
October 23rd – Eureka, California
November 22nd – Sebastopol, California
November 29th – San Francisco, California
December 1st – Community Walk through Golden Gate Park
December 8th – Santa Cruz
December 27th – San Luis Obispo
January 10th, 2025 – Santa Barbara
January 12th, 2025 – Ventura
About the Walk
For as long as I can remember, I have been drawn to the idea of taking a long walk. The time has come.
The walk began at the Canada/US border in Washington and I’m walking down the Pacific coast to Los Angeles. That is about 1,600 miles along the Pacific Coast Highway (Highway 1 and 101) and other roads.
I’m living simply. Walking. Breathing. Being with Earth. Sleeping outside. Resting and stretching my body. Harvesting food and medicine from the land. Drinking water. Swimming. Reading. Thinking.
I’m spending time and talking with people who I meet along the path and who come to walk with me, practicing compassionate communication with each interaction. I am sharing my messages through writing, speaking and being.
Unlike my last ten plus years of activism and adventures, I have no outward mission. This is for me.
To … slow down. Simplify. Be mindfully in the present moment. Deepen my gratitude for life. Fall in love with everything. Foster interconnectedness to all. Gain clarity and focus. Focus on peace within. Further my wholeness and completeness within.
With each day on the road, I’m shedding more of the past and walking into the present.
I am letting go of so much. I am letting go of attachment to outcome, even thought of outcome.
I am surrendering to the natural flow of life.
Although this walk is for me, the journey is part of the big picture. I have inner work to do to bring myself into higher truth and integrity and hone my service to Earth, humanity and the plants and animals we share this home with. I believe that this inner work and self-care is inherent to being the public servant I aim to be.
Time with Earth abounds, but so does time with people. I’m not walking on a trail through the woods, but rather on the roads and highways through many towns and cities.
I am continuously sharing updates of my whereabouts and my planned route so that I can be found by those who want to find me.