The Priest

Formerly known as Bob. (part 4)

The Long Walk.

Item number two on the top ten list of the most useful things about the apocalypse is weight loss. You can forget counting calories, you can forget water aerobics, you can forget Zumba classes. It’s all right out the window.

This is weight loss apocalypse style and it’s the easiest way to regain your slim boyish or girlish figure since forever.

Here’s how it works:

Walk a bunch.
Subsist on a diet of dead rodents, whatever food you can scrounge up, and plants as long as you don’t eat anything poisonous and just watch those unsightly pounds and inches melt away.

I wish I’d known it was this easy before.

It took me 6 weeks to get to Jerome.

I only walked at night because even though it was winter it was still hella hot during the day. Staying in the mountains was a little better, heat wise, than the flat lands but it was a lot more difficult from the standpoint of my physical conditioning. I just never thought about walking 420 miles before the collapse. It’s not something I would have chosen if I had options but I didn’t. My car had been broken for about six months when the collapse came and since all my “friends” had deserted me, or died, I was stuck without a ride.

I think I would have opted for walking in any event because the roads had become a battleground.