I would stop at restaurants, stop at B&Bs, stop at places like that, and so, I was never really roughing it,” said King. “It was never really a big physical feat per se, I mean I did 25 miles some days, that kind of thing, but I wasn’t camping out. He said his journey isn’t really about a man against the elements.
“I felt like I was kind-of in the footsteps of George Washington because I encountered so many of his places along the way,” King said. Along the way, he passed through several Revolutionary War sites. Moving on foot and occasionally by water, he traveled through Amish country in Pennsylvania, hiking the forests of New Jersey, and traversing the entire length of Staten Island. I'm underneath the Jersey Turnpike, I-95. And I have made it up this brook, this swampy river. "Twenty-one days of schlepping, all the way from Washington, D.C.
He said he is feeling “joyously exhausted.” King joined “Mornings On 1” from the New Jersey side of New York Harbor, which he will cross in a kayak Friday afternoon when the tide conditions are most favorable.