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PrintCesar Becerra has been sleeping on couches in Columbia, but he is on the road to greater things.
“I do a lot of different things,” he said. “Right now, I’m walking.”
While walking the Appalachian Trail soon after being diagnosed with diabetes, he fell in love with long-distance walking and made it his goal to walk around the world, excluding the oceans.
When he is not walking, Becerra works as a tour guide in Washington, D.C., New York City and Boston. He is also a teacher for Nature’s Classroom, a nonprofit environmental education organization in Greenfield, N.H.
He started his journey three years ago from Key West, Fla., and made it to Clinton, last fall. In late February, Becerra will begin his walk again, this time from Clinton to Topeka, Kan. He plans to walk across Kansas and continue westward. His final U.S. destination is Los Angeles.
After that, Becerra said he will jump a cargo ship to Tokyo to continue his journey.
He said if he is successful, he would be the fifth person to walk around the world. “I met one of the four world-walkers, and I want to be number five.”
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