Journalist autobiography the kindness of strangers quotes

Our comfort zones is exactly that…the zone in which we are comfortable. We rarely travel outside of it. Is it because of fear? Anxiety?

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Lack of ambition? Boredom?

In The Kindness of Strangers: Penniless Across America, journalist Mike McIntyre takes the leap and decides to abandon every comfort he knows. He says goodbye to his job, his girlfriend, his San Francisco apartment, and even his money, in order to conduct a social experiment.

His plan is to hitchhike across the United States–San Francisco, CA to Cape Fear, NC.

The experiment is as much a challenge for himself as for the unsuspecting people he encounters. As someone who has let fear guide a lot of his decisions in life, he feels like this is his last chance to prove to himself that he has courage.

For Mike, the comfort zone has become a trap.

He has some rules for his trip:  he will accept food, he will accept shelter, he will stay near smaller towns, he will accept rides from 1 man, 1 woman, a man