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When was the last time you walked somewhere?
Randomanthony wrote: "When was the last time you walked somewhere? I'm not trying to guilt you or give the walkers an opportunity to extol their virtues. I'm genuinely curious. What do you get out of walking? When d..."I walk my dog about two miles every day so she can inspect her neighborhood domain. More if she pesters me.
I don't drive and live in a city, so every day I'm walking somewhere; to the bus stop, store, coffee shop, library, lunch, when I'm out on the weekends. I really enjoy it, for the most part. Even though it's not intensive exercise by any means, I definitely feel healthier for it. I agree with BunWat, too. Walking is a great way to see the seasons changing.It has it's downside though. Once in a while, I'll get a co-worker who said they saw me walking somewhere. Not driving makes me more ubiquitous, and it makes me feel kind of on the spot
very well put Bun. same for me. i take my dog Lucy for long walks. i live in the country so i can go down my road for awhile without any cars passing either way. we also have a RR track and a woods nearby with a marshy swamp that she and i like to explore. mushroom hunting is in full swing around here so this weekend i will walk with my dad in the woods.as for walking to work or an event, i don't live in an area where that is conducive
The hound and I walked quite a bit in the last few weeks mushroom hunting.
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I walk to work every day. I live only 4 blocks from my office. Urban living is quite alright, for me. At least, in the city in which I live.
I wish I lived in a city like Columbia, MO that's engineered around pedestrian/bicycle transport. Little Rock is so not that place. I have to drive everywhere I go. That's one of the reasons I fell in love with NYC when I was there... and Boston... and Austin, even the midtown Houston area is that way. And it goes without being said that it's one of my favorite characteristics of New Orleans. I love to walk and take in the sensory details of everything around me. The exercise is just an added bonus.When I don't have to work, my fave activity is taking my dog for a walk on nature trails and over the pedestrian bridge that spans the Arkansas River.
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We have bike paths/streets all around us. Aren't they everywhere? I'm hard pressed to think of an area around here without them.
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Just kidding, I don't really know.
It's weird, I never thought about it much, but now that I think about it, the proliferation of bike paths/lanes/etc. is definitely a sign of progress in America...
http://www.nickelplatetrail.org/we have our first bike/ walking trail around here. because so much is flat agricultural ground there just is not much of this except in state parks here. this is a big deal for us
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I take the bus to work a lot, and to catch it I walk to downtown Olympia, about a 15 minute walk through the neighborhood into the city. I miss working at the Olympia Library, though, because there were a lot more places (bookstores, record store, restaurants, card shops, the Capital campus) to walk to at lunch time than there are at the Library Service Center where I work now.
I walk to the bars in my neighborhood, since even one Resurrection Ale knocks me silly. I walk the dog, but not as often as I should, since we have a big yard and he likes to run around on his own.
Some cities just scream WALK! at me, even when they have good public transit. Paris, NYC, Seattle.
When I'm in New York (like this coming weekend!) I walk EVERYWHERE. New York blocks just seem walkable. I can walk the entirety of Manhattan...it's quantifiable. I'm going with my sister and my aunt and cousin, all big walkers, so Zu bowed out, since I wore her feet down to nubs last time we were in the city, and I'm at least willing to keep a leisurely pace.
I think one of the reasons I'm reluctant to move to South Africa despite my in-laws offers of helping us open a restaurant is that nobody walks anywhere.
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In the hypothetical event that we were to move, you would certainly be welcome to visit. It's a great place to visit. I'm just not ready to live there.
When I go to downtown Sacramento I park my car at one of my friends' houses and then we walk to the restaurants and bars we plan to patronize.When I was in NYC we walked pretty much everywhere that was within 50 or so blocks of where we stayed. Otherwise, we took the subway. We only took a cab once (not counting the airport shuttle) and that was to the opera, because we were all dressed up and it was threatening rain.
Last summer my best friend and her family stayed with me for a week and we walked every morning to the coffee shop and every evening to frozen yogurt. It isn't very far. Probably fewer than 5 blocks. It was lovely. It wasn't too hot out yet because it was early enough in the summer, and we'd put my dog on a leash and her baby in the stroller and just enjoy the sunshine and company. I should have kept that habit but I'm lazy.
Otherwise, I walk my dog to the neighborhood park.
Donna, what are these "seasonal changes" of which you speak? I live in the Sacramento valley where our only seasons are Hot and Wet. (That's what she said.)
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Every day I'm not at home (in LA), there is so much walking. I live a little more than half a mile away from campus. On a nice day, it can be a treat to walk to class and take in the scenery. There are also times when a paper is due in ten minutes, and it would have really helped if those slackers at CERN had figured out the mechanics of teleportation already.
I love that Sarah makes fun of her own double entendres. :D
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right. i don't have to go "SPROOOIIING" and grin
:::blithely ignoring Kevin:::Yeah, what are those slackers at CERN doing, anyways? I'm with Nools, I think it's high time we had teleportation. Since those personal jet packs never materialized...
How much harder can it be than cellphones, right?
You know, every now and then I forget about Jackie's Star Trek thing...and then I remember she has, you know, Star Trek clothes. I don't mean that as a criticism. I just forget sometimes.
Star Wars clothes, too. I'm an equal opportunity SF fan.Although Star Wars is really more epic fantasy than SF, if you ask me...
i am looking for a jar-jar binks outfit jackie
That's the nausea talking, Kevin.
with a bit of red face makeup i could be Darth Maul
You need one of those fancy double-sided light sabers for that, Kevin. And to be prepared for people to run away from you.
Sally wrote: "She saves GaryKevinRADave so much work."That was my aim.
Sarah wrote: "Sally wrote: "She saves GaryKevinRADave so much work."That was my aim."
Let me try this then:
So, Sarah, are you Hot or Wet right now?
I just walked around the baseball fields just up the street from my office, where Little Leaguers were starting to arrive. It couldn't have been more idyllic of a scene. Sunshiny blue skies with big puffy white clouds, Mt. Rainier in the distance, smell of warm pine needles wafting through the air, and kids throwing around baseballs and swinging bats.
There's nothing like the sound of the crack of a bat hitting a baseball, even if you don't like sports.
College baseball ruins all of that Jackie, since they now use aluminum bats. It goes, "boing" instead of "crack."
That's just wrong, Larry. Basketball is the bouncy sound sport, not baseball. :(
Um, Dave and Larry/Vince... it's NOYB! *blushing and unable to come up with any kind of comeback*
Sarah Pi's statement about S. Africa reminded me of that scene in The Gods Must Be Crazy where the main woman drives to her mailbox. hee.Yep, NY is an incredibly pedestrian city. I would walk/bike to and from work between Soho and Upper West Side.
Donna, yes having a dog has put me so much more in touch with the changes in seasons as well.
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Sorry Sarah. I didn't mean to embarrass you. Honest.
Sally, my husband claims he gets all the fresh air he needs by walking to his car across campus, and then keeping the window open while he drives. Oy.
Sally wrote: "I'm about to walk out of the computer lab, across campus to my car. "How far is that?
I agree totally with Jackie.Kids baseball is great. Sandlot baseball is better. No coaches, parents or umps
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I have to drive to work, as my office is eighteen miles away and no public transportation is available in the area. But I try to walk to the library (four blocks away) and coffee shop (five blocks away) sometime. I don't walk as much for the exercise as for the meditation. I do most of my working out on the elliptical. Walking can be, ahem, challenging in the winter in Wisconsin, but today grey, foggy day, and walking will be kind of cool.
I also used to walk with my dog a lot...but now she's gone, walking through the woods this year is going to feel very weird.
When I was a kid we walked everywhere, I mean, miles, miles, miles. We'd walk three miles to the mall to save the buck from the bus.
And...you?