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SMITHSBURG, Md. — After crossing back into Maryland via a 7-mile stretch of Appalachian Trail, Sean, 23, meets Q, 15, who invites him over for dinner.
From INTO THE WORLD (2014) — Daily dispatches from the first fifty of the hundred days spent, at age 23, walking from Philadelphia to Colorado.
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BLUE RIDGE SUMMIT, Pa. — Sean, 23, runs into Chad, a math teacher, at a McDonald's in Emmitsburg, Maryland, gets hosted for the night, and is reminded of the value of family.
From INTO THE WORLD (2014) — Daily dispatches from the first fifty of the hundred days spent, at age 23, walking from Philadelphia to Colorado. 
GETTYSBURG, Pa. — Sean, 23, walks through Gettysburg on Saturday night. He considers bar-going before chickening out and crashing out in a field near "Florida's 2nd, 5th, 8th Regimental Monument."
From INTO THE WORLD (2014) — Daily dispatches from the first fifty of the hundred days spent, at age 23, walking from Philadelphia to Colorado. 
NEW OXFORD, Pa. — Sean, 23, stops in Abbottstown, Pennsylvania for lunch, where he chats with Lloyd, 80s, an ex-York resident, before making it to New Oxford, where encounters some locals at a bakery. Come sundown, he walks into New Oxford's western outskirts and briefly considers camping in a cemetery before getting spooked and crashing out beneath a billboard.
From INTO THE WORLD (2014) — Daily dispatches from the first fifty of the hundred days spent, at age 23, walking from Philadelphia to Colorado. 
THOMASVILLE, Pa. — Sean, 23, makes it out of York, Pennsylvania and crashes out in a roadside copse of conifers.
From INTO THE WORLD (2014) — Daily dispatches from the first fifty of the hundred days spent, at age 23, walking from Philadelphia to Colorado. 
YORK, Pa. — Sean, 23, gets rained on, demoralized, and humbled by the world. After sleeping in a vacant lot and walking all day, he gets saved by a random bus driver, gets taken under the wing of a fellow bus passenger, and blows forty dollars on a motel room in downtown York, Pennsylvania (pop. 44,000).
From INTO THE WORLD (2014) — Daily dispatches from the first fifty of the hundred days spent, at age 23, walking from Philadelphia to Colorado.
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MOUNTVILLE — After spending his first night in a motel and for some inexplicable reason splitting with fellow walker John, Sean, 23, gets his first taste of walking through a city, taking most of the day to traverse Lancaster, Pennsylvania (pop. 60,000) before crashing out in a vacant lot.
From INTO THE WORLD (2014) — Daily dispatches from the first fifty of the hundred days spent, at age 23, walking from Philadelphia to Colorado. 
LANCASTER — Sean, 23, after waking up covered in snow in a field across from Walmart, links up with his walking pal John at McDonald's, walks through Amish Country, and is forced to face his illusions about how autonomous he really is.
From INTO THE WORLD (2014) — Daily dispatches from the first fifty of the hundred days spent, at age 23, walking from Philadelphia to Colorado. 
PARKESBURG, Pa. — Sean, 23, runs back into John, 27 – whom he met yesterday in West Chester, and who is also trying to walk across country – in Coatesville. He sleeps in a field, in the snow, across from a Walmart Supercenter complex, on his fourth consecutive night sleeping outside.
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