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Hi, I'm Dave and wow.

So if you've been listening over the last handful of days, the weather has been a factor.

There was one day where the entire walk was in a wind tunnel and that was followed by a rainy walk and at a cold walk. Yesterday not so much drama. Today,

the drama is reversed. It is really mild. I even wonder if by the time I'm done, I'm going to be feeling like I've overdressed. Not wearing the magic hat. Don't have to worry about my ears this morning there's low level ground fog kind of this hazy low-lying misty thing and I believe we've got some

cooler weather coming in tonight maybe maybe some thunderstorms, and

tomorrow might be a whole, whole different deal.

So today I want to talk about a couple of questions that listeners have asked regarding being safe, safety while walking.

Specifically, one of the questions was, do I wear reflective, bright reflective clothing or a vest as I walk?

And what about where I walk? Do I walk in the street, on the sidewalk?

And a couple of things have happened in the last

several years that have really impacted my walking safety. So before we moved to South Carolina, Abe and I used to walk in a neighborhood

that did not have sidewalks, but it was a quiet neighborhood. It was hilly. It was really

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