Erik Bendl is walking around the country to raise
awareness for diabetes, and he does it with a giant world ball and a dog named
Nice.
I read that he was in the area the other day and then
Saturday we were driving down Hwy 30A in SouthWaltonCounty and there he was.
He was stopped, talking with a couple on bicycles so we
turned around, went back and met him.
He has walked an amazing 7,000 miles and his dog, Nice, has
done 6,000 of those with him. There are only a few states he hasn’t walked in,
a couple in the Midwest and a few of the
mountain states.
He gladly stops and talks with people about his journey and
diabetes awareness as well as maintaining a daily blog of his journey.
If you have a minute check him out – he seems like a
fascinating man.