My walking has been terrible. It's too hot. I play bridge on Tuesday mornings, and that messes with my schedule. I play bridge all day at tournaments. I have to do stuff related to selling - or not selling - the house. I'm tired. I will be 68 tomorrow - I'm old.
The heat thing, just so you know, is very real. I can deal with heat pretty well, go on an hour and a half walk with no water and be fine. But I took Arlo on a shorter walk the other day when it was mid-eighties, and he lay (lie lay lain, right?) on the neighbors' grass on the way home, which he never does, despite my giving him water three times during the walk. He really does not do well when it's that hot.
Most of the other stuff is just excuses.
On good days, we still take a long morning walk and a shorter evening walk. Today I was good, and I have 9,800 steps. The last two days, I played bridge all day, and I managed about 2,000 steps each day. The bridge went well though.
Thursday, I took a walk with Arlo, then went to Costco (good for about 2,000 steps), then walked to a Democrats of Jubilee event near my house, then went to the carpet store and the not-Costco grocery store, then took Arlo for his evening walk, for a total of 15,447 steps. There are still good days. That day, I also left Nebraska, land of Runzas, and entered Colorado.
For the next 1,369 miles, I will be in Colorado, then Utah. Getting past these two and into Nevada will take forever, more or less, or maybe a year at the rate I am going. Just Colorado amounts to 776 miles, including lots of zigzagging through the Rocky Mountains and crossing the highest point of the American Discovery Trail at the Continental Divide.
I am already ten miles into Colorado, working on those 776 miles.
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