Why do days always go so differently than originally planned?? That’s the curiosity for me today. Other than breakfast and the start of a walk, nothing else happened as planned.

The walk is probably the main culprit. We’ve been trying to take walk every day for the past couple of weeks. Usually they’re between a half-hour and an hour and something around or less than two miles. Today we started and Nina said I was in charge of figuring out the route. So, we started along a new route. I was ready to turn around at the one mile mark, but Nina thought we were doing well and we were in a pretty area. At 45 minutes I suggested turning around, but since we hadn’t ever been in this area before, it was possible to make the walk a big loop, and neither of us knew how long the big loop would be, we continued.

Clicking on the image will show a full-sized map of the route … it turned out to be a long, long, long walk that included a fairly serious uphill at the end.

The “grey” marks on the map are where we stopped, sat down on a bench, and recuperated. The Runkeeper app allows me to “pause” the walk when we were not actually walking, so the two-hour time doesn’t count the half an hour we spent on a bench somewhere along the route.

We got back to the motor home about 11:30am; the day was close to half over and we were both somewhat beyond exhausted, sore, sweating, and even a bit grumpy. Showers helped, but as I write this, I have both feet up as I don’t want any weight on them at all. The day wasn’t completely downhill from there, but at times felt like it!

Life remains good!