Speaking to the Gallup diocese's paper in May, Laura said, "Usually if we're close to the town we're staying in, we settle in to a hotel and then [I] pick him up at the end of his walk, but today he's going down a dirt road that doesn't show up very clearly on maps, so every 20 minutes I'm driving up."
Laura has been scouting the route for her father, making sure he has food and water throughout his day of walking, and picking up at the conclusion of each day's journey.
Once they got out of San Francisco, Laura said, they received a lot of support from people along the way.
"In San Francisco there were a lot of people who got in my dad's face and were screaming at him pretty vulgarly. And then the further away we get from San Francisco the more support he gets. Not that he didn't expect the bad stuff. He just kept his mouth shut and kept walking."
"It actually surprises me how many non-religious people are intrigued by what he does. We've had a couple people stop to talk to us and they're not religious at all. They don't know anything about the March for Life," said Laura. "People will stop and give my dad water, some people will walk with him for as long as they can, some people will give him money. A lot of people tell him how cool they think it is."
John intends to donate the money he's received along the way to the Knights of Columbus for its effort to provide ultrasound machines to pro-life pregnancy centers; the project recently donated its 1,000th machine to the Mother of Mercy Free Medical Clinic in the Diocese of Arlington.