The kid from Hong Kong travels across America alone, scarfing fast food, hopping cheap flights and seeing as much Angels baseball as possible.

He’s 17, and since July 13, he’s been the Pacific Ocean away from home. Sometimes, things get weird, like the time he was walking out of a McDonald’s in Anaheim and a man approached him. “Got any weed?” the man asked. “No,” the kid said.

This week, he’s in Cleveland, following the Angels, staying at the Radisson Hotel across from Progressive Field. He’s doing an interview on a burner phone that will expire Aug. 10, two days before his journey is scheduled to end.

His mother is worried about what he’s eating. She texts him every three hours, he said. He turns off his phone sometimes because he’s tired of explaining that he’s still alive.

His name is Fergus Chan. Next year, he hopes to be studying economics at Durham University in northeast England. He will find out if he’s accepted Aug. 20. Before that, he plans to see 23 games in 30 days.

With less than a month before his life gets real, he is living an American dream.

“It’s actually kind of scary,” Chan said. “But it’s the U.S., so people are very nice. In Hong Kong, people don’t talk. Everyone here asks me how I’m doing.”

On Sunday, Fergus went to Angel Stadium and sat in the right center field sun when “I heard the pop of Mike Trout’s bat.” He saw the ball spinning toward him. Two guys pushed him. He stuck up his glove.

“I didn’t catch it as much as it caught me,” Chan said.

He posted a photo of Mike Trout’s home run ball on Twitter, Facebook and Reddit. His temporary phone started blowing up. He was interviewed by Jose Mota on the Angels post game show. The world saw his catch, and his reaction to it, on the Major League Baseball Network.

“My friends said I’m a celebrity.”

The ball he caught sits in his suitcase, bound inside four towels and two sheets of bubble wrap. It is his greatest earthly possession.

Three years ago, he didn’t know what baseball was.

Chan was born Nov. 12, 1999, the same year that the Manchester United soccer club won the Premier League, the FA Cup and the UEFA Champions League. Chan’s parents gave their boy the first name Fergus in honor of Man U’s then-manager, Sir Alex Ferguson.

Chan attended the Island School, a prestigious educational center in Hong Kong. The teachers and his friends were mostly British, so he picked up the English language quickly.

His athletic passion was tennis, although he says he wasn’t very good. As a young teenager, he signed up for open tennis tournaments around the world just so he could travel. He played in Spain, he played in the United States. He said he’s so bad at tennis that he has never made it out of the first round of any tournament. At 14, he played in a tournament in Long Beach, but his hotel was in Anaheim. One night, during the tournament, he saw fireworks in the sky.

He had already been eliminated from the competition, so he asked his tennis coach to take him to see the fireworks.

The coach took him to see a game at Angel Stadium.

“People were cheering,” Chan said. “The stadium was packed. This game is really fun.”

When he got home to Hong Kong, he made an announcement to his parents.

“I’m quitting tennis,” he said. “I’m going to play baseball.”

His baseball career has been about as successful as his tennis career. He wants to be a pitcher, but he said his fastball has been clocked at 50 miles per hour. He said his coach always puts him in the outfield. He lives for being a spectator.

Chan’s parents are exhibitors in Hong Kong. Recently, for example, they hosted an exhibit of Smurf memorabilia, including original artwork from the television show.

They paid for a 10-day trip to see the Angels play last summer. “I fell in love with baseball even more,” he said.

When he returned home, Chan told them he wanted to go again this summer. This time, his parents said, he needed to pay half.

So he began working at their exhibits for the equivalent of about $10 per hour. He said he worked for eight months to save up enough for this year’s month-long trip. He thinks the entire trip will cost him and his family about $5,000. He eats two fast-food meals per day and tries to keep his food spending under $18 per day.

Most of his trip is spent in Anaheim, where he rents a room for $40 per night. The Angels’ current road trip will take him from Cleveland to Toronto.

His routine is to get to the ballpark during batting practice. He always stands in the right field corner. He says hello to the players as they go to the field. He recently got a fist bump from Angels reliever Keynan Middleton and he was recognized by starter Parker Bridwell, who gave him a free ticket upgrade.

Getting a baseball from Mike Trout became his obsession.

Chan had been to many Angels games, usually sitting in right center. Trout routinely throws balls into the stands in right-center field. But … no luck.

“I had not got a baseball from Mike Trout in 31 straight games,” he said.

Then Sunday happened.

“It was one of the highlights of my life,” he said.

Sometimes, the baseball will find you.