While in the area, Schriner and his family took some time to visit the Close Encounters of the Bird Kind Show at the Toledo Zoo.

One of the birds the show featured was a peregrine falcon, which a narrator explained, has just been taken off the, endangered species list because of ardent conservation efforts. "My platform also calls for the saving, and restoration, of as much wildlife habitat as possible in the country," Schriner said.

"I believe our role as humans is not to necessarily tame all of nature, as to learn from all of nature."

He, added he found the zoo bird show's ending by narrator Emily Insalaco insightful - "We 've not inherited this earth from our parents; we're borrowing it from our children," she said.

Over the coming weeks and months, Schriner will be on the road, concentrating on Ohio for the next year, and then spreading out throughout the Midwest and then beyond.

"My hope is to take some other 'average Joe' citizens to D.C. to inspire the nation and uncomplicate the heck out of federal government," he says.