American Ramble w/ Neil King Jr.
The Road to Now
Benjamin Sawyer
4.8 • 629 Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
In 2021, Neil King Jr. threw a few basic items into a backpack and walked from his home in Washington, DC to New York City. Over the next 26 days/330 miles, he met new people, uncovered forgotten moments of history, and spent many days thinking about America. In this episode, Neil joins Ben and Bob to discuss his book, American Ramble: A Walk of Memory and Renewal, and the lessons he learned along the way.
Before walking from his house in DC to New York City, Neil King Jr. worked as a journalist for outlets across the globe, including The Tampa Tribune, The Prague Post, and The Wall Street Journal.
On Sept 17, 2024, Neil King Jr.. passed away at age 65 from complications caused by esophageal cancer. We are reairing this episode to celebrate the excellence of his work and as a reminder that we are surrounded by beauty. We hope that this conversation – which is just one tiny line in Neil's legacy- will help you to see the common ground we all share and the adventures that surround us if we just take the time to look.
This episode originally aired as RTN #271 on May 1, 2023. The original episode was edited by Gary Fletcher. This reair was edited by Ben Sawyer.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Ben Sawyer and this is The Roads Now. Today we're re-airing our conversation with Neil King Jr. |
| 0:12.0 | On his book, American Ramble, A Walk of Memory and Renewal. Tragically, we lost Neil this last week. |
| 0:18.3 | He passed away at age 65 from complications caused by cancer. |
| 0:22.2 | We're re-airing this episode today to celebrate the excellence of his work and as a reminder |
| 0:26.3 | that we're surrounded by beauty. We hope this conversation, which is just one tiny line in |
| 0:31.0 | Neil's giant legacy, will help you to see the common ground we all share in the adventures |
| 0:35.5 | that surround us if we just take the time to look. |
| 0:38.2 | We'll be back next week with a new episode and hopefully you can listen to it as you go on the |
| 0:43.2 | great adventure that you've been putting off. Hope you have a great week. Take care. I'm Bob Crawford. |
| 0:57.4 | I'm Ben Sawyer, and this is the Road to Now. |
| 1:01.4 | Bob, Road is appropriate, right? |
| 1:04.8 | Yeah, this may be the book and the author that we were meant to have. |
| 1:10.3 | Maybe this is why we named our podcast seven years ago |
| 1:14.3 | the road to now just because somehow the universe told us that neil king author of american ramble |
| 1:21.8 | a walk of memory and renewal would be our guest today and here he is neal welcome, welcome to the show. It's so great to be on the |
| 1:30.3 | show. It's really great. Love talking to you guys. Neil, before we started recording, I was just |
| 1:35.6 | telling you how your book made me cry and how beautiful, beautifully written and what a just |
| 1:42.9 | amazing, vulnerable story you tell. |
| 1:47.2 | Can you start out by just kind of telling us about yourself and what started you on this journey? |
| 1:55.3 | I appreciate that. |
| 1:56.5 | You know, I was a longtime journalist, reporter, lived for basically 25 years in Washington, D.C., right |
| 2:03.0 | in the heart of all that stuff, a few blocks from the U.S. Capitol. |
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