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With all due respect, you live near the American Discovery Trail so you have a skewed perception of normalcy with that lol
It is definitely unusual for someone to walk across the United States. Wikipedia has a list of famous walks (which, of course, doesn't include the average joes who have done it) but the fact that the page exists lends to the idea that it's pretty notable!
That link got mangled for me for some reason. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_have_walked_across_the_United_States
Anyway. I knew a guy who did the walk. It was his fun fact at parties. He wasn't white and said he learned to call ahead to let authorities know he was coming through on foot.
(looks like I typoed a / at the start of the URL)
It's a great party fact! Very few people have done it and it's a legitimate accomplishment regardless