our 10 everything hurts my feet a back oh covered in sweat it's like 90 degrees

out today so tired just want to be home I'm Caleb Bissinger and this is a special

episode of the next big idea last Sunday I got up early made a couple peanut

butter and jelly sandwiches laced up my running shoes put my phone and airplane

mode and walked out my front door and then I walked and walked and walked

some more by lunchtime I'm sitting by the Pacific Ocean watching kids

splashing in the waves I sat there for a while wolf down at PB&J but this wasn't

my final destination turning inland I ambled up into the Pacific

palisades where houses the size of ski lodges hide behind paparazzi thwarting

fences and the streets had names like Amalfi and Monaco from there ahead at

east marching past the Los Angeles National Cemetery the final resting place

of tens of thousands of veterans from nine different wars I've been at it for

about seven or eight hours at this point further than I'd ever walked before but

not as far as I intended to go you see my goal that day was to walk for 12 hours

and not I should add as some sort of physical challenge although it was

physically challenging but as a way to unplug and decompress a way to give

myself the time and space to dwell deeply on this life of mine unencumbered by

the omnipresent distractions of our times I walked in silence no music no

podcasts only my thoughts for company by our 10 of hooping at non-stop and 90

degree heat I was pretty banged up I'm gonna do it I can do it oh there goes my

knee but I was also pretty blissed out when I returned home 12 hours and 32

miles after I'd left I felt proud I felt contented on the outside I needed a

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