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author: Eric Wagoner
date: '2000-03-30T03:47:42'
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title: Last year, Scott Christensen quit
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Last year, [Scott Christensen](http://www.ewav.com/) quit his well-paying computer job in New York City, left his apartment, gave away all of his posessions, and set off on a trek across the United States with "nothing but a car, a bicycle, a portable computer, a cellphone, some clothes, and a toy dog." All of it is documented here for us in bite-sized pieces. Much of it was written here in Athens, where everything started to come together for him (_"Written in Watkinsville, Georgia on May 28, 1999 in the basement of the old Baptist church after so damn much coffee at Jittery Joe's I'm too jittery to sleep"_). His trek took him to many of the same places I've been. His bits from [New Mexico](http://www.ewav.com/stories/thrunm.html) (_"There are nipples everywhere in New Mexico. New Mexico might very well be the teat of the world..."_) and [Athens](http://www.ewav.com/stories/athens1.html) (_"The Athens area was the first place I liked. Friendly people, pretty lands, warm weather and free ice tea refills..."_) were of special interest to me. The whole site is very well done, and if I wasn't in the middle of something at work I'd be spending a lot of time here. I found it all by accident while doing a google search for one of our local coffee houses.