live. Hi, this is William Ramsey. Welcome to William Ramsey Investigates on today's show. I have a very special guest.

He's just published a book published on Amazon on October 8th, 2024. Full title of the book is The World Walk.

Seven years, 28,000 miles, six continents, a grand meditation one step at a time. His name is Tom Ter Sitch.

His last name is spelled, T-U-R-C-I-C-C-H. And I was looking at it on

Amazon today, and it has a 41 five-star reviews well-deserved. So people are really enjoying reading

this book. I know that he, I think he was on Good Morning America on TV, but this came to

my attention a couple months ago. Kind of dropped off my radar, but back on. So I read the book.

I read half of it today. I read all the way up to him going into Kikito, Peru. But there's a lot of

background to the story. It's very interesting stories in a very elite group of people who've done this incredible journey, but he can talk more about that.

So Tom Turchic, welcome to the show.

Thank you for having me.

And great pronunciation on the name.

Thanks.

I was working on in my mind.

For people who may not have heard of this or this book, like some of these names you talk about I've never heard before. Maybe you can talk about how this all got started in your mind and how you decided to do this incredible adventure.

Sure. So as the listeners can hear the name of the book is The World Walk, so I walked around the world.

And I am the 10th person to walk around the world. And my dog, Savannah, is the first dog to walk around the world.

So that's what we did. It took seven years. I covered 28,000 miles. My dog, Savannah, did about 25,000 of that with me.

And it spanned six continents and 38 countries.

And it was born out of the death of a close friend of mine when I was 17.

My friend, Amory, passed.

And we were very close.

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