Woodrow Landfair's Ride Across America

Posted by Alex in Travel & Places on October 7, 2007 at 11:25 pm


Woodrow Landfair, 24 year old author, sold everything he owned to pursue his dream: to find stories of the real America by riding across the lower 48 states:

To support himself –and to gather material–Landfair does manual labor and odd jobs. He’s worked as a room service bell hop, a door-to-door salesman, a babysitter, a bartender, a waiter, and a food-runner. He’s built a fence in Florida, been a bouncer in New York City, changed oil in Virginia, and lifeguarded in Washington, D.C.

Landfair has lived in homeless shelters in New York City. He has stayed as a volunteer in the Katrina ravaged Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans. He’s slept and dined in the mansions of millionaires, in trailer parks, in truck stops, and in roadside fields.

His journey through the 48 states is part of a curriculum in self-education. Landfair is learning as a writer, as an artist, as an American, and as a human.

LinkThanks Andrew Leucht!


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4 comments to "Woodrow Landfair's Ride Across America"

  1. Peter
    October 7th, 2007 at 11:32 pm

    Hm story reminds me of the anime / manga Golden Boy

  2. ted
    October 8th, 2007 at 8:39 am

    But has he written anything lately?

  3. Crissy
    October 8th, 2007 at 9:38 pm

    I think he has a book forthcoming (Random House, i think?). I've actually been reading his stories at his website woodrowlandfair.com, or .org

  4. Dave
    October 9th, 2007 at 9:32 pm

    you can get him at woodrowlandfair.com or he has a myspace myspace.com/woodrowlandfair. There are also videos of truckstop camping on youtube. He is in SF right now and occasionally is doing storytelling shows.


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