B.J. Hill Walking to Inauguration With Letters

B.J. Hill is walking across America (he started in San Francisco) collecting letters to Obama and is hoping to deliver them to Obama in DC. After all that walking, I sure hope Obama's people accept the letters. Here is B.J.'s blog.
From Weekend America:

I read about BJ Hill back in 2006 in the Boston Globe. He'd walked across Massachusetts collecting handwritten messages for the Governor in a notebook. And then he brought the notebook back to Boston.

He laughs as he describes the unexpected finale: "I actually got 10 to 15 minutes with Governor Deval Patrick to hand the notebooks over. We read some of the messages and talked about some of the places I'd been. The books are now kept in the Gubernatorial Archives."

On March 1st, BJ set out to do the same thing on a much larger scale. He flew to San Francisco and began to walk east. He had a backpack, two walking sticks. And tucked close behind him was an empty black leather book.

For the last year BJ Hill has been traversing the country collecting messages for the next President of the United States

It's kind of an old fashioned idea, and even a little strange. Collecting messages for the President? Isn't that what the Internet is for? How would a book of scrawled notes help the President more than, say, the latest approval poll? But BJ seems to know the value.

"I think it would keep the President grounded as to what the rest of us Americans really are thinking," he says, "What we're doing and what we're going through."

Listen to the story:

See video here.