American Ramble: A Walk of Memory and Renewal. DC to NYC on Foot
The Bill Press Pod
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4.7 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Author Neil King thinks the best way to understand our country is to meet people on the ground by walking up to them and saying hello. Over 26 days and 330 miles, that is exactly what he did. The result for him was a kind of spiritual awakening, For the rest us, the delightful book he wrote about is journey, American Ramble: A Walk of Memory and Renewal. Bill loved it so much, he read it twice. You can get a copy here.
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| 1:04.7 | Hello, friends, and welcome. Welcome to this latest episode of the Bill Press Pod. So as many of you know, |
| 1:14.4 | I live in Washington, D.C. on Capitol Hill, a wonderful historic neighborhood. And a couple of days |
| 1:20.6 | each week I walk out my front door, walk past the Supreme Court, the Library of Congress, the U.S. |
| 1:26.4 | Capitol, and down the magnificent |
| 1:28.6 | national mall. Yeah, but a couple of years ago, a good friend and neighbor of ours, |
| 1:34.8 | Neil King, former Wall Street reporter, took a walk down the mall to New Heights. He walked |
| 1:41.2 | out his front door, just a block away, walked down the Washington Mall, and kept on going until 26 days later he arrived in New York City's Central Park. |
| 1:54.1 | It was a great journey where he traced the history of the American Revolution in parts of Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, |
| 2:01.6 | and where he encountered, as you might imagine, some very interesting characters, |
| 2:06.7 | some inspiring, some heartwarming, and some just downright weird. |
| 2:12.7 | Well, Neil's put it all together in what's definitely one of the best books I read this year. |
| 2:18.0 | It's called American Ramble. |
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