Hawk McGinnis
Harry Lee "Hawk" McGinnis (born August 28, 1927Template:Efn) is an American traveler who walked at least Script error: No such module "convert". on an around-the-world walking tour, from 1992 to c. Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"..[1][2] Earlier in his life, he walked through all 50 United States from 1983 to 1987.
Life and career
Born in 1927, Hawk grew up in Indiana on a farm.[3][4]
In 1944, he joined the U.S. Army and was posted in Japan and the Philippines during the Second World War.[3][5] During the war he received the nickname Hawk, which later stuck as his name.[6] He returned to the U.S. in 1947 and became a singer.[3] Later, he changed his career and joined a local magazine as a magazine editor and then finally a Methodist minister.[3]
Hawk started on his first walking expedition on August 29, 1983, on his 57th birthday, setting off on a planned 3-year walk to go in and through all the 50 states of the United States.[7] He was sponsored by both The North Face, who provided him with camping equipment, and Nike, who supplied him with shoes, during his walk.[4] On June 20, 1984, Hawk entered Crater Lake National Park after walking through ten states and still hoped to finish by his 60th birthday.[8] He finished in April 1987.
In 1992, he started in Dublin's Saint Patrick's Day parade of 1992, and by March 2008 has completed sixty-six countries.[3][9]
Dorian Haarhoff wrote that in 1996, Haarhoff encountered Hawk while walking around the world and he was given a card that read "Dimensions of a Seeker: Desire, Discipline, Determination, Discrimination", which read to Haarhoff like a "poet's manifesto".[10]
He reported on his website that he finished in January 2012 when he crossed the border from Mexico into Texas.[11]
See also
Notes
References
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External links
- https://teleosus.github.io/hawkwalk.github.io/index.html Backup and repair of now down hawkwalk.com website.