When we got to talk with Hanson this week, the boys were in town for more than just fulfilling our every past/present/future dream, (although thanks for that too, guys!). The trio was also in New York for another stop on the Walk Around the World Tour. Hanson kicks off the afternoon before each show with a mile-long amble to raise money and awareness for AIDS and poverty in Africa. The ultimate goal is to collectively walk 24,902 miles — the earth’s circumference — and they donate $1 for everyone that participates. “I think the walk is a symbol in a lot of ways of a wave of action that have come, and will continue to come from our generation,” Taylor explained. “We don’t want to take on these issues the same way they’ve been taken on before, and we have a lot more tools to use.”
So besides that warm, fuzzy we’re-doing-a-good-thing feeling, here’s what we found on The Walk (after the jump):
