Hurley walks the long walk

PRINCETON -- You know the kind of people who circle a parking lot three or four times to avoid walking a step further than they have to? Joe Hurley isn't one of them. Hurley, a columnist and retired reporter at The News-Times in Danbury, Conn., is more than three months into a walk that will take him from Provincetown, Mass. to Long Beach, Calif., a distance of 3,600 miles. Hurley entered Bureau County on Sunday morning. He is crossing the country on Route 6. He arrived in Bureau County, passing St. Bede Academy and soon encountering the curves east of Spring Valley. "Is that the one with the hospital?" Hurley said. "I said 'My, this is curvy. It kind of reminds me of my hometown.'" When you've been on the road as long as Hurley has, the ci