Английская Википедия:Hawk McGinnis

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Harry Lee "Hawk" McGinnis (born August 28, 1926) is an American traveler who walked at least Шаблон:Convert on an around-the-world walking tour, from 1992 to Шаблон:Circa.[1][2] Earlier in his life, he walked through all 50 United States from 1983 to 1987.

Life and career

Born in 1926, 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 hope to finish by his 60th birthday.[8] He finished in April 1987.

In 1992, he started in Dublin's St. 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 of 2012 when he crossed the boarder from Mexico into Texas.[11]

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