A Walk Across America..with a Leica..(WOW!!!)

[SoCalDem]

Plan to kill a few hours.. This is a great gallery..:):)
AMERICAN OCEAN: JOURNALS OF A CONTINENTAL DRIFTER
http://www.aaronhuey.com/pages/hueygallery3/galleryset3.html

A photographer in search of beauty
a journalist in search of truth
an adventurer in search of the unknown
a pilgrim in search of the hero within.

In January of 2002, Aaron Huey and his dog Cosmo (Husky/Malamute/Wolf mix) began a walk that would take them from Encinitas, California, to Coney Island, New York. The journey, which totaled 3,349 miles, took 154 days. But walking is only half of this story. Funny and irreverent at times, Huey remains diligent in his quest for truth and beauty, and he retains, throughout the book, his underlying belief in human potential. From the solitude of the western deserts and cold nights on the side of the road, to our largest cities and the warm homes of strangers, Aaron Huey takes us as deep into the hearts and minds of Americans as he does his own. His journey is one that travels from ego and attachment to a faith that transcends the differences that divide us. From the gang members of East St. Louis to the revivals of Oklahoma, frat boys, disabled vets, white supremacists, transvestites, dentists, rock stars, accountants, farmers, prostitutes, housewives, from stock brokers to celebrity impersonators, Huey meets a true cross section of America along the way. And at every gas station, every intersection, and every diner the question was always "why?"

The answer lies in the question mark itself, in the desire to abandon the "known." It is in that place, in the "unknown," that heroes are born. There is a metaphor used for the hero's journey and the threshold we must cross to make that journey, it is one of the "belly of the whale." Swallowed into the unknown, an apparent self-annihilation, the hero ceases to travel the landscape of the exterior and begins a journey within to traverse the landscape of the soul. Aaron Huey wanted to be that hero. He wanted to be the pilgrim that walks 84,000 steps a day, to know not what lay ahead, where he would sleep, or who he would encounter; he was in search of the joy that comes when a human being lets go of control and surrenders to the magic of chance. In that leap of faith a great comfort is found in the randomness, the impossible, the vertigo of a journey unplanned, a journey into the ocean that is inside of each one of us.

Because of that faith Huey is able to travel beneath the surface of America to explore the roots of our "hero myth," the myth that the hero is "someone else." Following the heroic cycle that was laid out by Joseph Campbell in The Hero With A Thousand Faces, a cycle that can be found in every myth, legend, and religion of man, from the story of the Buddha to Jason and the Golden Fleece, from The Odyssey of Homer to the life of Christ, Huey shares more than just a great story. He shares a dream and a dialogue that will inspire any age group to walk into their own Unknown.

The Unknown, wherever it may be in your life, is a place in your heart and mind where all the doors start to open; a place where you can dance on the hardest day of your life, where you can dance with triple blisters on your heels and in-between your toes, under the full moon, after walking 46 miles on the side of the road. When Aaron Huey found that place, the myth of the hero was destroyed. The hero is not someone else.



"The hero is symbolic of the divine image which is hidden in all of us, waiting to be known and rendered into life. I did not take this journey to be someone's hero, I took this journey because there is a great unknown inside my self, and inside my country, a great ocean of knowledge and beauty in both. It is in that 'unknown' that you find the hero not only in yourself, but the potential for the hero in everyone you meet."

--Aaron Huey





He walked across america with his dog.. taking pictures as he went..:)

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

1. wow. cool shit.

this guy is good.

[SoCalDem]

2. check his Burma gallery and the Taliban one.. He is great

:)

[BlackVelvetElvis]

4. He's damn good.

Bookmarking!

[SoCalDem]

3. a better pic of him and his dog