Family walks. Are they still a thing?

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

walking right now and would love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes or so. It is a typical

morning in South Carolina, a little before sunrise, temperature already in the 70s, humidity is a factor.

We've got some fog this morning. So yesterday, I was out for my walk, and I saw a group of people, about seven seven and I'm pretty sure that there was a family

dynamic at work I'm not entirely sure my best guess because this is Myrtle Beach people come here

for vacation people live here and there's a combination of the two. My best guess is that grandma lives here. And she's got a couple of friends that she walks with every day. And her family, daughter or son, were visiting and their child who looked to be about three.

And the child was in a stroller. These seven folks were out for a walk. They were dressed for fitness.

They were moving at a fitness pace, although the three-year-old, the youngest, wasn't fully on board with the plan.

And I think there was a little bit of a struggle with whether she should stay in the stroller so they could move fast or get out of the stroller and walk, which of course was a

at a slower pace. So there was some of that dynamic going on.

But as I observed this group, they were having fun together.

They were talking, they were laughing. Grandma was setting the pace and

every now and then she would turn around to see how her son or daughter and granddaughter

were doing, not in an exasperated, let's go, but more just checking.

Every now and then, grandma and the pacetters would actually come to a stop so that the younger

two generations could catch on.

It was just, it was fun to watch them. And they were on the

other side of the lake from me, walking on a paved trail that I walk on all the time. In fact,

two days earlier, I had a very similar experience.

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