One evening, Catherine was at home as usual. As her 1
swung between what she was going to do with her life and her dinner plans for the evening, she was unexpectedly 2 by an urgent call from her sister. "Get over here! Turn on NBC and check these guys out. They are just like you ..." One message and a phone interview later, Catherine found herself on a bus with 8 strangers in the middle of the sweltering desert heat of Utah, picking up trash and 3 awareness about zero-waste and climate change.
With a deep love of the environment and a desire to make a 4 , Catherine, Davey and a group of self 5 "environmental pick-up artists" went on a coast-to-coast roadside trash pick-up. As they walked, sometimes only 6 0.9 miles in an entire day, they 7 and steadily made their way across the United States for three years, picking up a total of 201,678 pounds of trash.
Catherine and Davey 8 with us wonderful stories of hope and inspiration that fuelled their 9 to continue their journey. After spending weeks silently worrying about how she would have enough money to fly home for their two-week spring break, Catherine found a blank, unidentified envelope 10 with $850 cash in the desert. Just enough to get her home and back. After their bus 11 outside Denver, they unexpectedly got help and arrived in Yosemite National Park three weeks later, just in time for the "Yosemite Facelift" where 12 from all over the state came together with a 13 of cleaning up trash all over the park.
Being at the right place at the right time became almost normal, and they realised that much of what they 14 was more than just a coincidence. Together, their team learned to simply 15 themselves to their task, and surrender to the journey.
