Travelling on low budget

I had a friend who travelled across North America on $2 a day that was his goal he would sleep in the middle of open fields all he had with him while travelling was a sleeping bag. He had an issue with a Lost Passport while travelling. It was like more of an issue with his stuff getting stolen while he was travelling including his passport. He didn’t know what to do because he travelled as minimalist, so he didn’t have other id’s with him, he told the story of his journey on $2 when asking a Notary for help with his lost passport, and the Notary was so fond of his idea of travelling on such a low budget offered to help him with his lost passport and loan him some money as well.