What are some of the obstacles Thoreau faced on his journey?

Thoreau
moved to the shoreline ofPond in order to find himself as a writer and to work on a book about
the boat trip that he and his brother John made six years earlier. He had three basic needs (as
do we all): a place to live, enough food to survive, and enough money to pay for everything. In
the Economy chapter of Walden, he tells us how he built his 10 x 15
house, which cost him less than $30 in materials. In The Bean-Field, he explains that he
planted a large garden to grow vegetables that he could either eat or sell. And near the end of
Economy, he claims that he found work as a day laborer, with a variety of jobs that generated
enough income in just six weeks to last him an entire year. According to what he tells us, the
Walden Pond experiment succeeded on these counts. He also had lots of time to study nature, and
he finished writing the book, .

In addition, Thoreau
also contended with the perception of the local townspeople. They thought he was crazy for
living in the woods, because no rational person would do this. After he moved back to the town
center, he was asked so many questions about what he had done at Walden that he began to give
public lectures on the subject. Coupled with the notes he had already made at the pond, these
pieces eventually became a full manuscript and were published as the book Walden; or,
Life in the Woods, seven years later.