WALKING ROUTE 66

This Is How I Ended Up In Police Custody

Without handcuffs, and with a clean record.

All photos © Rasheed Hooda, unless otherwise noted.

The plan was to walk from the South end of Springfield to Auburn, Illinois. It would be a 16 miles trek.

Before I left Chicago, my cousin Nadir gave me his antique MP3 player loaded with old songs. It had both Indian/Pakistani music from the…