ADAMS (AP) - When friends bet Danny Peterson that he could never walk between Kennewick, Wash., and Helix, Ore., with only one pair of shoes, a sleeping bag and no jacket, he knew he had to prove them wrong.

And he did, earning a cool $100 for his efforts.

"I'm fat and everybody said I couldn't do it," Peterson said. "They picked Helix. I had no idea where it was, and I didn't get a chance to look at a map. I just knew it was east of the Tri-Cities and south of Walla Walla."

Peterson also said his father had something to do with his long walk. The two play golf frequently and the elder Peterson is always complaining about his son insisting on renting a golf cart.

"He says I should walk more, so I did," Peterson said.

The trek started last Friday morning, and ended on Tuesday at a store in Adams - Peterson went past the finish line when he couldn't reach his friends from Helix.

Peterson said he walked at a pretty good clip the first two days but then slowed down. He spent his first night on the highway at Wallula Junction.

His shoestrings broke, but he knotted them together and kept trudging, surviving on an order of chicken strips, a nutrition bar, an apple, an orange and a tuna fish sandwich.

"Where I live, lots of people are rude," he said. "Everybody in these parts has been wonderful. They would stop and ask if I needed a ride, and I'd tell them what I was doing. They really liked it."

When he arrived in Adams, employees at the general store there treated him to breakfast - and then he boarded a Greyhound bus for the ride back to Kennewick.

"Walking back wasn't part of the bet," he said.