Two New Jersey mixologist brothers are raising the bar on Saturday morning starting on the Asbury Park boardwalk with a foundation stone that won’t stop until they reach the Redwood Forest outside San Francisco.
Aiden and Louis Ardin of Middletown, NJ, saw how much their partners were hurt by the COVID-driven lockdown and slow reopening in the bar and restaurant industry over the past year, and some came up with plans to give back, Their website states. He described the idea as “walking to America”.
Aiden, 28 and Louis, 27, both avid distance enthusiasts with a hobby for hiking and camping, have a 3,147-mile route that will take them out through 11 states on their way across the country. He has friends and family on the way, but he told his hometown, The two river times, That they will also trust strangers they meet on their journey. He estimates that they will go about 20 miles per day, making the journey about five months longer.
The idea started as a derogatory joke during a trip to Vermont with friends, when Aiden said he would prefer to be in search of rare jobs at restaurants that work under limited capacity restrictions. He spoke with his brother, and they came up with a plan to raise money for the nonprofit Restaurant Workers Community Foundation
. Their goal is $ 30,000, or about $ 10 per mile, an average lunch cost.
“We wanted to do something to benefit the restaurant workers, who we feel were left behind during this epidemic,” Aiden explained. Asbury Park Press. “Service industry workers were finding it impossible to get unemployment benefits, or were forced to go to work every day when restaurants were reopening and putting their well-being at risk.”
They agreed to travel by speaking with others who had traveled long distances. Most of the trip will take place on what Aiden calls a “backcountry highway”, so that they are rarely 50 miles from a city.
Luis said they plan to meet people in the culinary world when they stop for rest days along the way and will post on social media.
Aiden said that we just want to meet people in person and realize how other people live in the United States. “Our little New Jersey is getting away from the bubble.”
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