I want to go exploring. Welcome to walking is fitness. This is a podcast of action providing a little extra

motivation to help you keep that fitness promise you made to yourself. Hi, I'm Dave. I've been walking for fitness since 2013, averaging just under 21,000 steps a day.

I am walking right now and would love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes.

It is a mild morning in South Carolina, 71 degrees.

Skies are partly sunny.

The wind at the moment is calm and you are going to

notice pretty quickly probably a different sound this morning because I am not in Myrtle Beach.

Ava and I have traveled two hours south and we are in Charleston, South Carolina.

This is our first time here in Charleston.

And so we arrived yesterday afternoon and explored the city and spent the night in a wonderful little hotel, the St. Hotel, a boutique hotel, in the French Quarter of Charleston.

And I'm up early, the sun is already up, and I'm out walking along East Bay Street here in the French Quarter of Charleston.

And we have discovered that this is just a fun city, a fun city to explore.

It's also a challenging city to explore because it is old. With the age of the

city also comes very uneven surfaces. So we were walking. In fact, right now I'm walking on a

cobblestone alley and incredibly uneven.

So, you know, lately we've been talking about changing it up

and certainly this type of surface, you know, changes it up.

And so we were walking yesterday for several hours.

And uneven sidewalks and streets with

that aren't as smooth as what we're used to in South Carolina.

We've got these cobblestone streets.

So it was a little challenging.

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