Michael Tittinger
From June 18 through Dec. 18, 2011, Michael Tittinger walked across the United States (under the name Mikey Walks) to raise money for the Onny and Oboe Scholarship Fund, which he founded with wife Brooke Tittinger, helping heart transplant patients and their families get a second chance to pursue their dreams. Tittinger left Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco and followed Route 50 (symbolic because one organ donor can change 50 lives) to Cincinnati, OH, before making his way northeast to his native Philadelphia, and then finishing in Ocean City, NJ. Tittinger chronicles his adventures—profiling the Americans he meets along the way—as well as his fundraising on his website mikeywalks.com.
Michael's blog can be read here:
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