Faculty and staff members at Wheeling Park High School are taking a metaphorical journey across the country. Health and physical education teacher Mark Nardone has started the WPHS Walking/Running Club, a group for administrative, guidance, teaching and service personnel that promotes the benefits of an active lifestyle. The club’s 25 members record how many miles they walk or run each day and turn in their numbers to Nardone, who adds them together for a cumulative total. “Every Monday, I e-mail the total number of miles the club’s members walked or ran during the previous week to Janet Nichols in our history department,” he said. “Our goal was to ‘travel’ to Seattle, but I think we’re going to surpass that.” After the first week, the group had already logged enough miles – 270 – to arrive in Greenfield, Ind., Nardone said. Nichols allows her social studies students to earn extra credit by gathering information about the locations to which the Walking/Running Club travels. “We have been plotting a course across the United States,” Nichols said. “What I’ve done is calculate the miles, and then, using a map and the Internet, locate the city that the club would have walked to that week. Again, using the Internet, we research that particular city and find out some interesting facts as well as the average temperature for that area. The plan is to make a series of posters for each of the weeks that the group walked.