The Last Straw

Due to regulations Ferenc and István have to cover the U.S.A stage in 90 days. They need to walk 25-30 miles a day to achieve that goal. Sometimes in thunderstorms, heat, suffocating moisture. This is a lot. A lot, but it’s not impossible. Achievable but it drains their strength and energies. They have to make up for it.

Food is cheap in the U.S.A. It’s cheap in the supermarkets. But they don’t have the chance to look for supermarkets while walking 25-30 miles a day. In smaller villages or in the middle of National Parks there are no supermarkets. Mostly, they have to do with canteens and gas stations. And these are expensive, damn expensive.

by FERENC IVANICS
Unfortunately, while planning the U.S.A. stage we missed these two hard facts. We had made some research, we planned our budget accordingly, but we didn’t expect to eat up our bank account at this speed. Next week we will bite into the last 100 bucks we have with ourselves. It might last until we arrive in New Orleans, it might run out on the way. Me made a mistake, even though we tried hard to organize the U.S.A stage, and even harder to gather the means to follow our Peacetour. Right now all we can do is hope that our readers can help us out this time. Please help!

When we were preparing for the African stage we worked for it on a private construction, we didn’t want to arrive at an unknown continent exhausted, weak, without proper reserves. We saved up the money spending it on the most important stuff only. After reaching our goal, Dakar, we had to leave Africa, without the help of our friends we couldn’t have made it back to Europe.




We wanted to work before the American stages as well, but due to the economic crisis we didn’t manage to get a job this time. Overcoming our bad feelings and putting aside our principles we started to beg for money on the streets. Finally we collected the money needed to begin the U.S.A stage. With the help of others we managed to collect it.



But it ran short and it’s almost gone. Right now we don’t know what to do, we are not allowed to work here, we’re tourists. We cannot beg here, there’s no time for that either, we have to go on. We’d like to ask everyone again, please, help us, every dollar, every euro, every pound, every peso helps. A buck more means one or two miles more. That’s how it is: we need to spend like US$20 on food daily, we’d like to ask for your support. You can donate by clicking on the Donate button. Thank you all in advance!

Update: Many thanks to Carolyn Tester (Musings by the Creekside) for her instant help.