Walker raises awareness one step at a time
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April 21, 2016
Diana Zimmerman
Ras Ible has gotten very fit pulling his home around with him. He stopped for a few minutes on Wednesday to tell his story.
"I'm just blessed every day," he said.
Ras Ible is his spiritual name.
It's good enough.
This path of his journey started in Spokane.
There have been other journeys. There was war and loss, prison. A strip club.
"I lead a group out of West Virginia called West Virginia for Medical Marijuana and another called Christians for Medical Marijuana," Ible said. "I started this mission a year ago."
"Cannabis is a sacrament for me," he said.
The 20 miles he walks each day has turned into a thousand miles between Washington, California and Oregon. He does pushups while he waits at stoplights or jokingly challenges drivers to races.
He even went to Hawaii for awhile, but he's currently based in Astoria, where he works on homes like the one he pulls behind him.
"This is actually a little walkable house," Ible said. If you're going to be homeless, you might as well be homeless in style. I built it and it works to perfection."
He seems to have a heart for others.
"I want to share it with the world so we can help other homeless people and give them little homeless parks, give them something to take pride in and is their very own."
He would like them to bring the assistance to them, whether it's to address mental health or substance abuse or anything else.
"Some people are specifically nomadic," Ible said.
He wasn't always that way.
Ible says he was incarcerated for 15 years. He spent 12 years in prison and the final three on parole for medical marijuana possession and for sharing.
"They took my home, my farm, my land and my business," he said.
He tried to make the most of it, studying law and becoming a librarian.
"I educated myself and got out," Ible said.I decided to change the world so it never happens again."
That's why he's trying to head north to Olympia. He wants to talk to a judge who will soon sentence a man to a similar fate to ask for leniency.
His walk is raising awareness for homelessness, for hunger and for hate, he said. "We've got to bring some peace. I'm going to keep walking it until we learn some peace."
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