Today I want to tell you about a walk that put into motion a series of events that changed the direction of the life that Dave and I have together.

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Hi, I'm Dave. I've been walking for fitness since 2013, averaging about 21,000 steps a day. I'm

walking right now and would love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes. So this walk happened

seven years ago. We lived in Maryland. We lived outside of Baltimore City,

but every now and then we would go downtown, particularly along the inner harbor, and either

go to a restaurant, do some shopping. But one thing we enjoyed doing quite a bit was walking along

harbor walk. So there's a paved trail that stretches eight miles. I believe it starts in Campton,

and it winds all the way around the inner harbor to Federal Hill.

Now we wouldn't walk the entire distance when we were down there.

Oftentimes we would poke around Fells Point.

But on this particular day, we parked in Fells Point and walked towards Canton, turned around, and came back.

It's probably four or five miles total. It was a sunny summer day. It was hot, which

Ava and I enjoy. And the walk started friendly

enough, but probably within about

10 minutes,

it got

a little tense.

I need to give you a

bit of the back story.

In 2001,

Ava and I and our kids started vacationing along the Outer Banks of North Carolina, primarily between the towns of Duck and Corolla. And as the years progressed, we

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