Is you walk becoming boring, dull and old hat? Do find the treadmill just isn't as fun as it used to be? Are wanting to challenge yourself to something new and different? Then talk a walk in the sticks! Here's the kind of adventure you can expect:
Bugs, bug, and just for fun, more bugs. They are everywhere. Not only will you develop a sharp eye looking out for them, but you will also get an upper body workout swatting them away. As an added bonus, if you walk through enough spider webs, you earn your green belt, Karate Master.
Poop. If you don't work out, you'll look like it. If you work out, you'll feel like it until you get used it. If you don't watch your step here in the sticks, you'll step in it. Horses, like 2 year olds, just don't care where it lands.
For the most of your walking pleasure, you'll be in the high grass with the before mentioned bugs, Jimmy Hoffa and velocirapters. Okay, maybe not Jimmy Hoffa...that's exaggerating. Your shoes might get soaked from the morning dew, but keeping your eyes sharp for snakes will take your mind off such minor nuisances.
When you're not in tall grass, you'll find yourself in sand for no apparent reason. It's like grass, grass, grass, sand for no reason, grass, grass...Just enough random to keep you on your toes and to give your calves a power workout.
You'll also see obvious animal dens, but you don't who lives there. Could be a mouse, could be the Chupacabra. For your own safety, keep you music low enough to hear oncoming traffic, rattle snakes tails, and the howls of cryptids. That's a science-y word for stuff like Big Foot. Keep your camera at the ready for Monster Quest and World News.
Just for fun, Nature likes grow things that make your body move. Things like...Poison Ivy. It looks harmless, like the play button on Carly Rae's
Call Me Maybe. All it takes is one touch, and you end up shaking your groove thing whether you like it or not. Oh, Nature. You and your poisonous vegetation! Such a card!
And, finally, to test your resolve, bodies. Not Jimmy Hoffa's...his is in Yosemite. These are from the before mentioned wildlife who, just like kids, just leave what's left of whatever they're eating just where ever. Seriously, I saw this and went "EW!" and then I was all, "don't throw your leftovers away or anything! Make Mom clean it up like she's got nothing else to do!" See? Walking out here makes you want to be more diligent in making sure the kids pick up after themselves.
Still feeling like you need more excitement in your daily walk? Come on out to where the sidewalk, and well, most roads end. Have yourself an adventure! Be careful and mind those no trespassing signs. Folks are armed out here...must be the Chupacabra....
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Shannon is kicking at 4 miles and doing it on time. She also just got a doggie stroller, so that she can bring Rocky the Shih Tzu on her walk with her. He can only make 2 miles. He needs to step up his game.
