Walking to Los Angeles

Noah Rattler is walking from Houston to Los Angeles to raise awareness of homelessness.

He began his walk on March 23 and is completing the second leg of his journey right now in the middle of summer, in the Mojave Desert.

Ben DeSoto

Sitting in my hotel room, I was surfing the Internet on June 2. Out of curiosity, I checked in on the Noah on the SEARCH Web site and on Noah’s MySpace page. Two phone calls and e-mail got me talking directly to him.

The next day, we got together and talked during a scheduled break. (You can see a slideshow here.) Rattler, a graduate of Prairie View A&M with a degrees in both physics and mechanical engineering and a volunteer at SEARCH, wanted some way to bring attention to the floundering agency which tries to help people living on the streets of Houston.

Check out his video message from the Grand Canyon. Noah is also a regular on Larry Payne’s radio program Interchange, Mondays 7-8 p.m. KPFT 90.1 FM -- Ben DeSoto