A road trip with a difference
After fitting his car with a sleeping space and scraping together US$2000 ($2230), 21-year-old US university student Tyler Kellogg hit the road. His goal: to bestow random acts of kindness on 100 strangers.
Share it In 55 days, he helped 115 strangers and made an exhilarating realisation: “You don’t have to be a billionaire to be a philanthropist,” he says. “You just have to ask people, ‘How can I help?’ ”
He drove 2600km, from New York to Florida, then back again. “The first person I helped was a guy installing a boat lift on a lake,” he recalls. “I was shaking when I asked if he needed a hand. When he said, ‘Can you help me get this into the water?’ I knew it was going to be OK.”
Along the way he helped a police officer fix a barricade and spread countless cubic metres of mulch. And somewhere outside Atlanta, he met a man who was crying because his wife had recently died and he had no-one to talk to.
“For three hours we sat on his veranda,” he says. “When I left, he said, ‘Thank you. I realise now that my life will go on.’ ”
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