Trespassing Across America: One Man's Epic, Never-Done-Before (and Sort of Illegal) Hike Across the Heartland

by Ken Ilgunas

facetiousness,

Naïveté, though a shortcoming in most any other situation, is a prerequisite to adventure. (Stupidity can be an outright asset.)

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Thomas Jefferson believed that property rights gave citizens economic security and a sense of self-reliance, which he thought would encourage independent political judgment.

torpor,

As it got warmer, instead of saying that he was going to remove a layer of clothing, Rick said, “I gotta shuck some duds.”