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Could it be a Canadian that drove to NY and then hiked west?

That's a pretty common thing to do.

I have a bunch of friends from college that are bouncing around the globe travelling on foot, picking fruits and doing farm-work when they run out of funds.

Or are the databases / missing persons agencies communicating with each others?

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Clues here are: he’s from Louisiana, worked in NY in tech, liked screeps. Coder from the looks of his notes. Mid 30s to late 40s.

Those first two are claims not facts.

Perhaps his suspected Louisiana ancestry is Cajun/Acadian, and he is actually from Quebec?

I'm from French Canada and I could easily imagine someone being in the US and saying "I am from Louisiana" while actually meaning "my ancestors are in Louisiana".

correct, it's from his own words. Nothing listed was fact.

He talked with several people. A canadian accent would be noticed.

I've met lots of anglophone Canadians (even from Quebec), which I confuse for Americans. It's very hard to reliably distinguish the two by accent.

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