Longest walks

Wow even the guy that wanted to be the man that fell down at your door only walked 1000 miles. This is pretty hardcore.
- Probably just really wanted to escape Ohio.
  
  On April 14, 1970, during an 11g slingshot maneuver on the remote side of the moon on the Apollo 13 mission, Astronaut Jim Lovell achieved what every other person born in Ohio has always dreamed of:
  Getting as far away as humanly possible.

I've been a bunch of places all over the world and I would agree. The world isn't terrible.
All the assholes who live in it however...

I wouldn't count a multiple day walk as a single walk.
When you get to sleep, it starts a new walk.
Otherwise I have been having a walk for my entire life.
- I'd argue that if it's conceived of as a journey with a set end point - "I'm going to walk from Vancouver to Toronto", by way of example - you could consider it a single walk. If you're just walking everyday without a set end point in mind, I'd agree with you.
  Maybe 'journey by foot' is the better phrase here, idk.

It would be a white guy in the 1980s. “Yeah the world isn’t that terrible”
Dudes don’t even have to think twice walking to their car at night.
- Did you read the post? Seems like he did have to think twice.
- Absofuckinglutely, imagine being black and walking through rural counties in the US much less other countries. The average person "might" leave you alone but the police absolutely will not.

I think it's an amazing story that he was able to find his way back home after walking such a long distance!

Well yeah, the world and by extension your life is mostly harmless. It's quite the statistical anomaly when you do get harmed but it's not to say it's impossible.
People do tend to get stuck in that awareness of chance of harm and often over prescribe it to certain parts to keep up the fear. That's probably cause people are also mostly stupidly uninformed.

There were bandits in 1987??
- Only three years later some bandits tried to break into a kids house over Christmas.
- Still are in some parts of the world. Less arrows and swords more guns and machetes

Most life-changing discovery: make videos of yourself bumming around the world and total strangers will send you money.

Daniel Pearl would like a word
- Right? Do that now, you’ll get picked up by some extremist group.

Petition to rename this epic journey as "The Walk For The Ages".
I want a book, movie, and an epic ballad with at least a dozen dozen stanzas!

This is more than mildly interesting. That guy probably lived a very interesting life

How do we define a walk? Because I've almost certainly covered that distance in my life, and I've even slept outside and fended off bandits, sort of.