What does it take for a former journalist to get close to real people and get true stories. Perhaps, it involves taking steps to really get back to nature or to the streets. Doug Levitt is a song writer and a former foreign correspondent that once worked for the major networks in the country a decade ago. Levitt is the type of guy that likes to get close to real people and listen to their stories. Therefore, he made the smart decision to ride the Greyhound bus across the country. Of course, taking the bus is a bit out of style for most people, but it still remains a way to really get to know America and people.
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Levitt realize that most people prefer other modes of travel by plane, train, or even their own vehicle. The people that he met on the bus were generally people that were struggling to just survive. He plans to compose songs and write books about his journey.
Doug Levitt
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Today, he is a singer, songwriter, and novelist. He is the author of the Greyhound Diaries. This is a book project that took him ten years to create. The author traveled over 100,000 miles on a bus to get close to America and America 's people. His journeys led to him taking poignant photographs and writing interesting stories about those traveling with him on the bus. Many of the people were simply struggling to survive. Levitt has appeared on numerous television shows, published books, published articles, published short stories, published photographs, recorded music, and performed one man shows about his