Today I'm going to give you an audio tour of where I grew up.

Hi, this is Dave. Welcome to Walking as Fitness, a daily 10-minute podcast designed to provide you

with a little added motivation to get out the door, take the walk, and to keep going to build a life-changing walking habit.

Today's 10-minute walk starts right after this.

All right, so this is actually going to be an experiment in real time.

I am walking on the street where I grew up in Lynthicum, Lenttham Heights, Maryland. This is Hilltop Road.

And at the moment, I'm looking at the house.

We moved in that house when I was eight years old,

and I lived there until the day I got married.

And for elementary school, so third grade,

moved here in the middle of third grade,

fourth, fifth, and sixth grade, I walked to school and then walked home every day.

There was no school bus. I don't ever remember my parents driving me to school.

It didn't matter what the weather was.

We were walking to school. And seemed in my mind like the walk

took forever. So I'm going to see how long it takes. My guess is I can actually get it done

during this podcast, the entire podcast. I'm walking down Hilltop Road past where the Stingmans lived.

That house was not there when we moved in.

That was my baseball field.

I was really upset when they obliterated my empty lot where I played baseball.

Looking past the Sh chaise where the

shays lived got her grass grandmother now she made the best peanut brittle

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