Today it rained for several hours. Everything was soaked, including the grass on the side of the road. After it had stopped raining, and I had walked for 19 miles, 2 police in 2 different cars pulled me over to warn and threaten me that I could not walk on the pavement at all. They told me I had 3 options: 1. they could give me a ride to where there are sidewalks, 2. I could walk in the grass through Kentucky or 3. they would put me in jail. They threatened me with jail, at least three times, both of them on 2 different occasions.

I of course challenged them about their so called law that I’d been apparently breaking for 50 years. They said that because they didn’t like my attitude, and they knew I would walk anyway on the highway, that they were going to watch me walk for a while, and that would get ahead of me and was watching me for at least a mile or two. Walking in the grass is crazy. It dramatically increases risk of blisters, ankle sprains, ticks, and extremely difficult walking.

Now, imagine if i was a Black man walking on the highway, it would be Dead Man Walking. That’s why I have to do it, or people that look like me.