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Walking to NOLA
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Weekend America's Kelly McEvers is waiting for her husband to come home from a very long walk. Last June, her husband quit his job at a magazine in New York City and decided to take a walk going south. His final destination is New Orleans. He hopes to clear his head and think about the important things in life. Meanwhile, his wife is at home paying bills and wondering why comfortable people choose to make their lives difficult. McEvers went walking with her husband in Georgia and brings us their story.

» Map of of all the places Nathan has slept while walking to New Orleans.

Excerpts from the poem "Marshes of Glynn," about coastal Georgia, by Sidney Lanier read by Kelly McEvers.

Excerpt 1 (:12)

Excerpt 2. (:25).