Today's 10-minute walk is helping you keep the fitness promise you made to yourself,

and we'll add another link to your growing fitness chain.

Walking along an access road near the Myrtle Beach Airport,

road that is lined with pine trees. It's one of the things about living here in South Carolina that is different from Maryland.

Now in Maryland, Maryland had so many trees which made for a stunning autumn as those leaves were changing from green to reds and oranges and yellows.

And there were some pine trees in Maryland, but the predominant feature, at least where we lived, were trees with leaves.

Here in Myrtle Beach, the predominant feature are pine trees and palm trees.

There are some trees with leaves, and those did change in color, and they fell, and they had to be raped.

No, you just pick them up with your fingers.

We have one little tree in our front yard that drops leaves, and essentially I can pick them up with my hand.

Don't spend hours and hours raking.

But as I'm walking along these pine trees, things are still green.

That's why they're called evergreen.

And that's kind of a cool feature to living here in South Carolina.

Have you ever thought about the holidays as an opportunity to walk more?

I think it is.

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.

Our first Christmas here in Myrtle Beach in November that year, we saw a notice. I don't know if it was on the community Facebook page,

or I don't recall how we saw it, but there was a notice of the tree lighting ceremony and

the arrival of Santa in our town center on a Saturday night.

It's typically the Saturday before Thanksgiving.

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