Hawk McGinnis

Harry Lee "Hawk" McGinnis (born August 28, 1927 (Earlier sources written during his walks tend to put his birth year as 1926, Earlier in his life, he walked through all 50 United States from 1983 to 1987.)

Life and career Born in 1927, Hawk grew up in Indiana on a farm.

In 1944, he joined the U.S. Army and was posted in Japan and the Philippines during the Second World War. During the war he received the nickname Hawk, which later stuck as his name. He returned to the U.S. in 1947 and became a singer. He was sponsored by both The North Face, who provided him with camping equipment, and Nike, who supplied him with shoes, during his walk. He finished in April 1987.

In 1992, he started in Dublin's Saint Patrick's Day parade of 1992, and by March 2008 has completed sixty-six countries.

Dorian Haarhoff wrote that in 1996, Haarhoff encountered Hawk while walking around the world and he was given a card that read "Dimensions of a Seeker: Desire, Discipline, Determination, Discrimination", which read to Haarhoff like a "poet's manifesto".

He reported on his website that he finished in January 2012 when he crossed the border from Mexico into Texas.