Today's Buffalo News

[Lawdwaz]

Anybody read the front page article on the three guys that are walking from Buffalo to LA?

 

It's a HOOT! 

 

I don't see a link to it on their web site, maybe later today or tomorrow??  If you have the news, read it and report back....................

[The_Real_TCIII]

If they're going to the game they better hustle

Edited February 7, 2016 by The_Real_TCIII

[Merlot]

Recent article in Olean Times Herald about guy walking AROUND the continental US, trying to get help for the homeless. Started in Virginia  and has worked his way around to about Wisconsin. Started in June 2014. That's pretty impressive.

[Lawdwaz]

Strange that it still isn't on their web site.  

 

It's quite a neat story; the thing about it is that they aren't athletes, FAR from it!  One guy weighed in at 470lbs, another at 340 and the last one was 200 when they left.  They said "we were the laziest guys for 20 years;  playing video games and watching movies.  We're not the active type"   

 

They started walking around the neighborhood and started to loose weight and feel better.  Then they got an idea almost as big as them, "hey, why not walk to LA from Buffalo?" 

 

With little to no preparation, they took off.  Pushing modified baby strollers to hold their gear they headed out.........

 

They haven't finished yet but should in a couple months.

 

Too bad it isn't available on line, I thought it was great.

[philoshop]

I haven't seen the story, but why not?

A good friend from high school grabbed a backpack and a cheap bicycle in 1977 and headed out to see a girl in Minnesota. The girl thing didn't work out for him but he ended up spending 20 years circling the globe three times on a bicycle. He doesn't regret any of it.