The adventurous Brad Hauter is currently on a trek across America. Most people do it by car, some make the trip by bike. A couple people even jog. Brad has chosen to ride his souped-up 18-horsepower lawnmower from one coast to the other.

Oddly enough, he started driving west a good way, which just adds a bunch of backtracking on his already lengthy trip. Starting out in California, he ended up visiting San Francisco where he mowed random plots of grass and was then escorted by the police to a brass quartet playing both Bach and the Star Spangled Banner. (Hopefully not at the same time.)

He will eventually wind up in New York City sometime in June. In the mean time, he has packed his trusty CD player and will be listening to Mozart and U2 (among other things) on his lengthy lawnmower-based expedition.

Check out his photos of the trip (so far) or read the diary.

Somehow I suspect that his lawnmower probably does not get great gasoline milage.

Definitely wacky.