Today I want to tell you a story, a story of probably the most blissful walk I've ever taken.

Welcome to Walking as 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 about 21,000 steps a day.

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

So the particulars of this walk, this blissful walk, it happened two years ago today.

It was about a mile from a restaurant to our house.

The weather was mostly sunny. Temperature in the 60s, even though it was mostly sunny because it was later in the day,

started around 410. Daylight was fading. And if at some point you begin to

think, I remember you talking about this walk before. Haven't you already told us about this walk?

The answer to that is yes. I told you about this walk a year ago because today is the two-year

anniversary, but I'm going to give you a little different perspective.

So the backstory to this walk, this was on December 27, 2020, my first day as a full-time resident

of South Carolina. We had spent all of 2020 getting our house in Maryland ready to sell. It was quite a bit of work.

There was a good deal of stress in the selling process, our first buyer. Their financing couldn't go through and we had to put it back on the market.

Meanwhile, we bought the house here in South Carolina. So for a couple of months, we owned two houses.

Ava moved down right after we settled on the house here in South Carolina. I was still

working in Maryland, still part of the morning show. So I was essentially commuting most

weekends. My time on the morning show had ended four days prior.

Ava came up to Maryland.

We spent the Christmas holiday with family.

And then December 26th, we both drove back to South Carolina together. So December 27th was my first full day as a full-time resident of Myrtle Beach.

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