About 10 years ago, Brett Rounsaville found himself stranded in the pouring rain at a defunct train station outside Arkadelphia, Arkansas — an unforeseen consequence of a months-long, cross-country quest to check off 50 items on his bucket list. After two days of watching Amtrak trains barrel pass the sodden terminal, he came to a resolution: “I’ll (just) walk to Texas,” he recalled thinking.
Although he was spared the trek — a police officer picked him up after 10 miles, dropping him off at a nearby gas station from where he hitchhiked the rest of the way — Rounsaville is still driven by that same determination.
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