Man hit, killed in Florida while making barefoot, cross-country trip

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• He was struck whereas strolling alongside a Florida highway
• Expenses are pending towards the motive force

The 33-year-old from Windfall, Rhode Island, was strolling throughout the nation, barefoot, to lift cash and consciousness in regards to the setting.

However his trek ended tragically over the weekend when he was struck and killed by an SUV whereas strolling alongside the aspect of the highway within the Florida panhandle.

Baumer left Rhode Island and began his stroll in October. He'd simply accomplished the 100th day of his stroll, which he documented on a number of social media websites.

"Local weather change is the best risk we have ever confronted as a civilization," he wrote on his website. "A number of scientists agree. I'm not a scientist. I'm a poet."

His day by day updates had been a wry mixture of the mundane -- the place he walked every day, the individuals he met, what he ate -- with bits of his poetry.

"The inexperienced carpet the place I slept was dry regardless that it rained many of the evening. I may really feel an madness resting deep in my face," he wrote in his final entry.

Baumer was amassing donations throughout his stroll for the FANG Collective, a Rhode Island-based environmental group. FANG paid tribute to him on its Fb web page.

"Mark was an amazingly compassionate, empathic, humble, joyful, beneficiant, conscious and caring particular person. He was a proficient poet and artist with a capability to faucet into the human expertise along with his work," FANG stated within the put up." As a good friend he was all the time there for us emotionally and did no matter he may do to assist the work and imaginative and prescient of FANG."

Expenses are pending towards the motive force of the SUV who struck Baumer, CNN affiliate WEAR stated.