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By MICHAEL CLEVELAND

Sometime this morning, Will Buchanan will start walking toward the Seacoast. It’s not too far now, and it’s a heck of a lot shorter journey than when he started in April from Oregon.

Buchanan, 35, a supporter of the Free State Project, decided to walk to New Hampshire — and make the state his new home — to make a statement and start a new life.

According to the movement’s mission statement, in part, “the Free State Project is an agreement among 20,000 pro-liberty activists to move to New Hampshire, where they will exert the fullest practical effort toward the creation of a society in which the maximum role of government is the protection of life, liberty and property.”

Buchanan arrived in New Hampshire with his wife, Brooke, on Dec. 14. The two have rented part of a house in Henniker, which is serving as their home base. Brooke, 29, has been his support driver, following along in their vehicle as he walked.

“I guess it’s kind of a transitional period in my life,” Buchanan said in a telephone interview, as he walked along Bridge Street after calling the New Hampshire Union Leader on his cell phone late yesterday morning.

“I was working as a computer programmer writing programs for advertising agencies and I realized this wasn’t the way I wanted to spend the rest of my life,” he said. “It didn’t seem really purposeful. So this is kind of a transition to a new life and moving liberty forward.”

The couple had moved from Boston back to Brooke’s home state of Hawaii, but knew they wanted to live in New Hampshire. When his wife suggested that he walk, Will jumped on the idea and decided to start in Oregon.

The goal for Buchanan is the Seacoast, in part because he started his walk from the Oregon seacoast town of Cannon Beach on April 14.

His plan was to walk 10 miles yesterday, sleep in Henniker, then return to the spot where he stopped on Sunday and start again. That spot, he said late yesterday afternoon, is a Getty station at the fork in the road where Main Street and Candia Road split.

He intends to reach the Seacoast on New Year’s Day, but hasn’t decided upon which beach his journey will end.

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