Writer Walks Across America

Posted by Adam Williams Aug 26, 2008

Part Two of the Jesse WhiteCrow interview is now available: Interview with the Writer Who Crossed America.

Three years doing anything these days seems like a substantive amount of time. Three years spent walking alone across a continent must seem like a lifetime of sorts.

Each day, as Jesse explains, must be lived in full to its end, free of worries about days, weeks, months, years ahead. The only concern must be the present concern. Each day is life and death.

In the second part of the Q&A series with Jesse, he talks about how difficult it has been to return to a somewhat "civilized" existence. I say "somewhat" because he is living in a 60-year-old Airstream trailer in the New England woods. And he still lives his days largely in solitude.

He is coping with transitioning from a life of mere survival in which he faced wild animals -- moose, bears, boars, snakes, etc. -- and wild humans (he once was shot at).

In the series of interviews he graciously has granted me and Suite101, Jesse shares his struggle to re-sort this monumental, life-changing experience into a book.

He began his walk across America as a man on a mission. He became a writer, blogger (WhiteCrow Walking) and more recently a book author-in-progress.