https://www.yahoo.com/news/canadian-...234328240.html

No passport, no worries. This Canadian gentleman Anton Pilipa might be on the right track/trek when he says:

""I've never felt alone. It's been a lot of thinking for years, sleeping in the open. It's very simple to live, we do not need many things," Anton said.

What a shame he was turned away from the Argentine National Library because he had no identification. This is did not stop him from trekking through 10 countries including the USA to get there!

xfiltrate
Eat, Drink and do with a lot less stuff

This is the only time I've ever used this word in both senses in the same sentence.
What a crazy guy.

A little bit more information (in Portuguese)
A incrível história do homem sem documentos encontrado no Brasil 5 anos após desaparecer no Canadá - BBC Brasil

And google translate:

The incredible story of the undocumented man found in Brazil 5 years after disappearing in Canada
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From Manaus to BBC Brazil
February 6, 2017
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Canadian Anton Pilipa was missing for five years and was found in northern Brazil.
A Canadian who has been missing for five years and was found to be stranded on roads in Rondônia and Amazonas without documents and money - and without knowing his identity - is expected to meet with his family in Toronto on Monday.
Anton Pilipa, 39, was approached by a road police officer at the end of November when he wandered in BR 364 in Rondônia, putting his life in danger in the middle of the vehicles.
He was taken to a hospital in Porto Velho. While the authorities tried to identify him, with the help of embassies and lists of missing persons, the man fled the hospital.
When he was found again at the beginning of the year, walking along a road at the entrance to Manaus, one already knew who he was: he was a Canadian citizen, who had disappeared in 2012 shortly after starting a treatment for schizophrenia.
Few words
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Stefan Pilipa (left) meets Brother Anton, who has been missing for five years
Anton is a few words. In a conversation with the BBC Brazil in Manaus, where the flight that would take him and his brother, Stefan Pilipa, back home, Anton did not give details of his pilgrimage, perhaps due to the effect of drugs to control schizophrenia.
"I've never felt alone," he says softly. "It's been a lot of thinking for years, sleeping in the open. It's very simple to live, we do not need many things."
Anton has toured towns and villages in at least nine countries from Canada, including the United States, Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, and Brazil.
He says that for most of his wandering he sought food and clothes in trash cans, and that he sometimes received food from some people. But he also says he has run into "bad people" along the way. "But I have received more generosity, especially in recent times."
'Indescribable emotion'
His brother, Stefan, reports that the family received just before Christmas the news that Anton had been found more than 10,000 miles from Canada.
"It was an indescribable emotion, because a person lost in the family leaves everyone in an endless waiting, something difficult to explain," says Stefan.
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Family posted notices about Anton's disappearance
"A death in life, because it is not known if the person died, if it is sick, is eating. This shakes everyone forever," he adds.
According to him, the contact was made thanks to the initiative of the highway policeman Helenice Campos, who approached Anton on the Rondônia road, when he looked like a beggar, who had been wearing the same blue bermuda shorts and shirt for months, uttering curses and disconnected words.
Helenice led him to a hospital in Porto Velho and met Anton's brother on Twitter.
Stefan reported the excitement when he noticed that the Federal Highway Police had released photos of his brother, and that the search for his identity had great repercussion in the internet. He even received calls from mothers of missing associations from around the world, some claiming to have Anton's hope to be his missing son, but all happy that he found his family.
"Our history has brought them hope, because it is something very difficult to have constantly in such a situation, without traces of the person's footsteps, without clues, only pain and anxiety," says Stefan.
The family began mobilizing to get money to get it, even creating a collective financing account on the internet to help finance costs, such as plane tickets.
Among those awaiting him in Toronto are his 65-year-old mother and 15-year-old Stefan's eldest daughter who has always been very attached to her uncle.
Disappearance in Toronto
When Anton disappeared in March 2012, he was starting a treatment against his mental illness. For decades he had worked in Vancouver, Montreal, and Toronto as an employee of humanitarian relief organizations.
"It's been a while since Anton moved to a neighborhood far from me and we did not see each other very often," says Stefan.
"When we realized that he had disappeared, leaving behind documents, clothes and his house, we reported his disappearance immediately to the police and published a poster on the internet."
"We looked for him a lot in the country, but we never had any news, no clue.