Are you feeling overwhelmed?

Welcome to Walking is 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 started walking for fitness in 2013. Still take an intentional fitness walk every single day.

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

Our daughter Grace, her husband, Brandon, and their four children, our grandchildren, Judah, Josephine, we call her Joey,

Samson and Stevie Joy, our youngest granddaughter, live about nine and a half hours away from us.

And we have really two options, three I guess, when it comes to visiting Grace and the family.

Option number one, we can fly, but there are no direct flights from Myrtle Beach.

And so it's a fly from here to Nashville or here to Baltimore or I guess here to Chicago and then to Valparaiso,

the Valparaiso Airport.

Not super quick, but it is quicker than option number two, which is driving.

And if I leave here and don't stop, it's about nine and a half hours, but I need to stop.

One, I have to get gas.

Gas tank isn't large enough to travel from here to Fort Walton Beach in one shot.

And I guess option number three is don't go, which is not a good option.

I have done both of the first two options, although lately it's been more of the second

where I'm driving.

That's a long car ride.

And I'm not a fan of long car rides.

But to make it emotionally more palatable,

Jacksonville, Florida is the midway point between here and Grace's house.

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