The impact that one generation has on another.

Hi, I'm Dave.

Welcome to Walking is Fitness, a daily 10-minute podcast designed to provide you with a little added motivation to get out the door, take the walk,

and hopefully to build a life-changing walking habit.

Today's 10-minute walk starts right after this.

Still in Lynthicum, Maryland, which is where I grew up.

I lived here until the day I got married and then Ava and I rented the first floor of a house.

It was actually really close to the elementary school that I walked to yesterday.

And then two years after getting married, we bought our first house in North Lenthicum.

So probably two miles, two miles from here.

And we lived there for 11 years

and five of our six children were born while we were living in that house.

Now, probably three of them have no recollection of the house.

The oldest two, Christopher and Grace, do have some memories.

Obviously Christopher because he was seven, eight years old.

When we left that house, his memories are going to be the strongest.

But I've been thinking as I've been spending some time

here in Lenthicum, spending time with my parents, the impact that they had on me with, I don't

think it was intentional, but I don't know. Maybe it was. But the impact that they had on me in terms of

being active, they walked a lot. And as I was growing up with my three sisters, we walked a lot too.

And not always, and not not always voluntarily I remember as a kid going with my

parents to Annapolis and dad loved architecture and he loved old houses and we

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