Man born without limbs crosses Canada via skateboard and kindness

At home in the southern Alberta farming and ranching community of Nanton on July 6, Chris Koch was feeling restless. He looked at the calendar and then looked at a map of Canada. “And I said I would try to get to St. John’s.
“If I could get four or five hours down the road each day, I knew I could make it. And if I didn’t get out of Alberta, that was OK, too,” the 39-year-old motivational speaker and farmer recalled Wednesday in an interview.
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