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Don’t Stop Now

November 30, 2016October 9, 2017 by Bill Donahue

At age 77, long distance hiker George “Billy Goat” Woodard has no fixed address and is forever walking in the wilderness or making his way to the wilderness—on trains, in friends’ cars, and sometimes by hitchhiking. 

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