Depends On Your Definition Of "Insane"

I've gotten a few heads-up on this story of a guy trying to walk across the country to effect dramatic weight-loss. He's already lost fifty pounds, but hasn't gone as far as he thought he would in terms of daily mileage. I'm glad he's slowing down in norder to take care of himself physically, because this is sort of a risky idea.

But wow, it's really difficult not to be sucked in by his personal story.

"[H]e has a lot to think about as he walks. About the anger he carried around so long, and how pointless it seems now. About how accepting help from people doesn't shame him anymore, now that he sometimes has to ask strangers for water. And about the value of living in the moment, of just surviving that next stretch of road.

'It has nothing to do with weight anymore," he says. "It's about getting back to the person I was.'"

His website is here.