The 2020 walkabout.

In 2020, the route ran on foot from Brown City, Michigan, to Port Wentworth, Georgia. A long walk like that changes the meaning of distance. It turns the map into weather, pavement, people, hunger, timing, pain, generosity, and one decision after another.

The point of keeping this in the studio journal is not to turn it into a trophy. It belongs here because it is part of the lived archive behind New Era: movement, risk, observation, endurance, improvisation, and the strange clarity that comes from having to keep going.

Quick read Brown City to Port Wentworth, one decision at a time.

The walkabout holds route memory, field fragments, endurance, improvisation, and the plain systems that keep a person moving.

A map becomes a mirror.

On a screen, the route is a line. On foot, every mile has texture. A town is not just a name. It is where water comes from, where a shoulder gets narrow, where weather changes, where someone says something that stays with you, or where the body makes it very clear that the plan needs to adapt.

Walking that far teaches scale in a way no app can fake. It also teaches respect for small progress. One mile is not much until it is the mile you have to do now.

The record matters.

Pieces of the walk live on YouTube and Instagram. They are not polished studio artifacts. They are field fragments: real movement, rough context, moments from the route, and evidence of a chapter that changed the wider New Era orbit.

The video lane continues through New Era Adventures. The Instagram archive is tied to @_this_asshole_.

Walkabout video archive.

The 2020 walkabout appears in a small set of Instagram-highlight videos on New Era Adventures. They work best as field fragments rather than a finished documentary: short captured pieces from the route, preserved close to the way they moved through the day.

Long walks change the work.

A long walk teaches patience without making patience sound soft. It teaches how to keep a system simple: eat, drink, rest, check the route, protect the feet, keep the pack honest, and do the next piece.

That same discipline belongs in the studio. Make the next piece clear. Carry what matters. Adapt when the conditions change. Keep a record good enough to find your way back.

The walkabout now has its own archive at The 2020 Walkabout. The wider road archive starts at New Era Adventures.