Hiking the Glenn Highway through Alaska. Published in Asphalt Pilgrims.
Paul Salopek
Every hundred miles Salopek pauses to record the landscape and a person he meets, assembling a global snapshot of humankind. Milestones reflect straight-line distances, but his walked distances are generally much longer. More on these waypoints here.
Every hundred miles Salopek pauses to record the landscape and a person he meets, assembling a global snapshot of humankind. Milestones reflect straight-line distances, but his walked distances are generally much longer. More on these waypoints here.
Although we allow our musical and motoring
creations to carry us, we can rarely distinguish
within their cycles which destination
is a beginning, which beginning a finale.
— Pattiann Rogers, “Musical and Motoring Cycles”
A wraparound soundscape at this Milestone
This Milestone’s location on a map
Photos of the ground under Paul’s feet and the sky above at this Milestone
A brief question and answer with the first person Paul meets at this Milestone
MV Alios
No human being was encountered while recording this Milestone. At the time of the Milestone — 2:17 a.m. — the command deck and crew’s quarters of the ship were off limits.
No human being was encountered while recording this Milestone. At the time of the Milestone — 2:17 a.m. — the command deck and crew’s quarters of the ship were off limits.
Observations from social media from the Milestone location
As the Out of Eden Walk journey moves into the Mediterranean Sea, the Tweets and Instagram images selected for this Milestone leap forth into another continent, where the 2014 World Cup has commenced in Brazil. Tweets in Arabic, Hebrew, English, French, and other languages reflect the truly global reach of these games. The time of the Milestone also marked the beginning of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month of fasting, and netizens greeted each other with “Ramadan Kareem”, meaning “Generous Ramadan”). We found Tweets about electricity outages, interrupted concert plans, ISIS, an amendment to protect the Israeli coastline, and our collective addiction to smartphones. “Lovin’ life”, wrote one individual posting on Instagram and looking out onto the same sea where Paul has set sail.
A video showing the landscape around this Milestone
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