NY Writer and Distance Walker, Kimberlie Dame, Lives For Three Consecutive Years Along America's Trail Systems In Search of Modern American Nomads

A New York writer uses Kickstarter.com as a funding platform for a book project that requires she live for three years out in the wilderness along long-distance trails. She will walk over 10,000 miles and research and document people she finds living off the grid in the wilderness areas of the United States. End Quote

(1888PressRelease) July 19, 2011 - Kimberlie Dame, a Brooklyn based writer known for her adventure reporting on the popular outdoor website "The New Nomads", has begun her preparations for a three year walking journey along America's network of long-distance trails. Her aim is to discover the people living on or along those trails, who have made the decision to live a voluntarily nomadic lifestyle, report their stories and strategies to her readers, all the while becoming a voluntary nomad herself. She is working on a book about this subject called 'All Who Wander - Living Outside of it All'.

"People walk the trails, that's nothing new," Kimberlie says. " But they usually approach it as an isolated adventure, something outside of their daily lives. I want to find the people who live nomadically in the wild areas of the country, outside of our society. I want to know what they're up to and how they've accomplished it. I want to know if they're happy and what led them to those choices. To do that, I have to become one myself."

The physical demands of the journey will be intense. Kimberlie will walk, with everything she owns on her back, nearly 10,000 miles over the course of the three years primarily by herself. Though she is no stranger to long-distance hiking and what that entails, she knows this will be an enormous test of her endurance, both physical and mental. "I'm hoping I will eventually be able to relax into the exertion," she says. "It's not about finishing a challenge, but being on a journey."

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Kimberlie has decided to fund the project through Kickstarter. Kickstarter, called "one of the best inventions of 2010" by Time Magazine, is a crowd-source funding platform for creative and artistic projects on the web. Private philanthropists pledge whatever they want to a particular project and are rewarded by the artist with sometimes very interesting and creative rewards. It's a hands-on way to give and keeps the giver updated and involved. It's also all-or-nothing, meaning, if the funding goal isn't reached, no one is charged and no money changes hands. "I'm asking for funding for this project because I don't want it to become a story about begging for food, " Kimberlie explains. "The point of the project is to be able to use the experience to write the book and I don't want that book to be about how to eat dirt to survive." The funding deadline for Kimberlie's project is August the 8th.

You can find Kimberlie's Kickstarter page at :

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1201154052/all-who-wander-living-outside-of-it-all

A quick peruse of Kimberlie's past writing at her website www.thenewnomads.com quickly convinces that it will not be an ordinary trail report. Her knack for finding adventure and interesting people in unlikely places is evident and entertaining. This is a project to follow.

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