My 10-minute walk today is happening in pretty high humidity.

It tends to be humid here in South Carolina, certainly spring, summer, even into the fall.

Winter, not so much much but the temperatures are still

very warm the humidity today is very high it's going to sound like too much

personal information but this is going to be a multi-shower day it's one of the

things that Ava and I joke about as we go through the day particularly

during the summer,

when the weather is warmer and hotter, and even now into September, it's still up there.

And we'll joke, it's a four-shower day. It's a three-shower day.

Today is going to be a multi-shower day, I can tell that. One of my favorite walks, one of my most memorable walks, happened on my 30th birthday. So this was decades ago.

Ava took me to the C&O Canal and we walked. I don't know how far we went, two, three, four miles. We were new parents,

and so she had arranged for a babysitter for our firstborn, so we spent the day just her

and I, and that was special. There was something significant about turning 30. I think I've mentioned

this before, even as I'm walking along the

C&O canal and feeling 30 years old, I'm also feeling, hey, I'm an adult. And I don't know what it was,

why I didn't feel like an adult before. I mean, I was married. I was a homeowner. I was a father.

A full-time job. But turning 30 is when I felt like an adult. But that was a fun day.

It was a fun memory. It was a fun walk. But it was also an easy walk. We went north in one direction, and then when we were ready to head back, we turned around and came back.

Not complicated at all.

Straight in one direction, stop, turn around, straight back, and our car was waiting in a parking lot.

I have wondered recently, pondered how this iPhone in my pocket with the map and the GPS has changed walking as a fitness activity.

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