Another Charlie Boy update. We came upon him 13 Nov 2011 as he trudged down the Avenue of the Giants through Humboldt Redwoods State Park. No way I could pass up a chance to chat, so we rolled alongside him as he walked and talked. Apparently, he discovered after he took up his cart that his true last name -- Chariot en Bois -- happens to mean "wood cart" in French. He said if he'd known that before he started walking, he woulda never taken up the cart, since the last thing he wants to be is a cliché. When asked why he started walking in the first place, which indeed he said he's been doing since the early 1990s, he talked of having seen a wood cart once and thinking it to be the coolest thing. Given the amount of conspiracy theory tumbling out of him about 10min into our confab, it's easy to imagine other forces may have also helped set him adrift. Nonetheless, he was an amiable fellow, and he let us snap a few pics as well. As we didn't have any cash to compensate for his image, we ponied up some chocolate chip cookies, a rootbeer and a box of crackers . . . all of which disappeared easily inside his beautiful wooden cart.
