Live and Learn. My mother used to say that a lot, and at some point, it finally sunk in. It’s a good rule.
As you might imagine, my walk to the park has taught me quite a few things, some relatively small and insignificant and others a bit more important. I’ll get to these at some point, but for now, based on my recent learnings, I’ve decided the following.
The next time I do this it will either be much longer or have no end point. This way, I will either delay or indefinitely postpone the arrival and I won’t have to deal with the complications it entails. I’m now realizing that I kinda picked one the most difficult places to walk through to get to my destination. I have absolutely no clue as to how one walks to the George Washington bridge from rural New Jersey. I have been trying to find a copy of Walking to the Park for Dummies, even looked on the online bookseller thing called Amazon, to no avail. Regardless, I forge on, but next time, the arrival will be much further out timewise and perhaps the destination could be a hotel in a little bitty town in Idaho, or something. I’ll keep you updated, but for now, this walk continues through Maryland.
And beautiful it is. My walk was short today, for I was picked up on the side of the road by my dear college polo friend Cindy. Timing was good for the walk, as it rained this afternoon. I’m looking forward to making up some of the miles by just walking around these country roads, just for pleasure tomorrow, and Saturday I’ll resume the official walk to the park, for pleasure as well :-)
I also discovered something that could make the next walk a lot easier. So they look like big dogs, long faces, kind eyes. And you put this thing in their mouth and it’s connected to your hands with a leather thing. And then you put this funny thing upon which one sits on the big dog’s back and fasten securely around the waist. Then you sit back and enjoy the ride. Here’s the view from above, taken with SaddleCam, available at the online bookseller place.
This was definitely one of the highlights of this trip. It felt great to be on a horse again, riding through beautiful farms, unscathed by the rain. Also nice to just be in a barn again, in horse country. So for all my horsey friends I say… if you’re ever in your barn and not enjoying it, then just enjoy it for me would ya?
There’s a new little thing I have to start thinking about now, and that is cold weather. The good thing is I love cold weather. Some of my most memorable walks have in fact been in sub-freezing temperatures, one in particular in Frisco Colorado when it was 3 below zero. Looking forward to just walking around the farms tomorrow, in the cold.
Loving this trend…
