So here’s a story: John Francis, disturbed by an oil spill caused by a tanker collision, stops using cars, buses, trains, and planes. He tires of arguing to justify his decision. So he stops talking, for 17 years.
Now you’d think that a guy who does that would end up, at best, being a colorful crank. But Francis didn’t. He applied to graduate school, in Montana.
It took him two years to walk there, but he finished a masters and a PhD (on how to respond to oil spills.)
He also ended up walking across America. His advice: carry and play a banjo when you travel.
Then, being that he’s an expert on oil spills, he was hired by the Coast Guard to help them figure out how to clean up after them.
Francis now speaks, and uses cars, trains, planes, and buses again.
