Keep Walking

Steve Vaught is a remarkable man. He realised he was grossly overweight and decided to do something about it by walking from one side of the US to the other. Starting in SanDiego he has marched through eleven pairs of shoes so far. The BBC caught up with him in Cambridge, Ohio and told his story to the world. Steve has so far lost more than six stones in weight and walked more than 2,000 miles. His intended destination is Manhattan. His weight-loss is coming along fine but it is not helped by the fact that most eating places serve "fried this, battered that ..." As the report said Steve would have been happy to breakfast on meusli but Ohio is definitely not meusli country. In the walking interview he noted that the billboards on the outskirts of towns usually consisted of adverts for fast-food joints or churches. He remarked that both types of establishment catered for the same thing - to ease your pain. Feed your stomach or your spiritual needs. That's a neat analogy Steve. Perhaps if more of us got out of our cars and off our fat asses and walked we wouldn't feel the need for either of these types of false plastic establishments. It would certainly lead to cleaner air with less gas-guzzlers on the road. Perhaps it would help the environment too. But most of all it could possibly change a whole mind-set of consumerism.
I hope you have started a revolution Steve - you're a real hero.
Think on all you burger-eating, gas-guzzling, lazy good-for-nothing layabouts.