Two men are taking a long walk from Iowa to Portland, Maine, and they expect to be in Maine in less than a week.
Max Granfield and Stephen Skinner have been on the road for months.
Granfield said they are carrying everything they need to survive on their backs, including food, water, and a tent for shelter.
Granfield said many people have helped them along the way.
“It’s made me more patriotic than I already was. It goes beyond even words like constitution and democracy and freedom. I really do value those things, but there’s something in the character of the people, like I think Americans, generally, are just pretty nice people, and there is some real, real value in that,” Granfield said.
The adventurers said they travel about 25 miles a day.
As for what they plan to do when they arrive in Portland, they say they want to eat a good bowl of clam chowder.
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