Hi, friends. Welcome to Walking is Fitness, the podcast. I'm Dave. Can I let you in on a little

secret this morning? Before I do, I need to give you some context. My wife, Ava, and I love warm

weather. We love summer. It's one of the reasons, one of the primary reasons, we move from Maryland to South Carolina.

Not that we wanted our summers hotter, but we wanted the warmer weather longer.

You know, there is still a winter down here in South Carolina, but it doesn't last very long and it's

not real severe.

And then when spring arrives, it usually starts warming up a couple of months earlier

than it does in Maryland and summer and warm autumn extends longer than it does in Maryland.

So we love warm weather. It was an intentional part of our decision to move from Maryland to South Carolina.

I, we both, also really like, I wouldn't say we love, but we like the humidity, which was something that we experienced quite a bit of in Maryland.

And by contrast, a couple of months ago, we went out to Las Vegas for the wedding of my son.

It was very hot.

I actually did a podcast walking along the strip in Vegas.

And I think that day it reached maybe 105, 106 degrees, which is far hotter than it gets here in South Carolina.

The biggest difference is that because Las Vegas is pretty much in a desert, there's almost

no humidity.

So it's a dry heat.

And you know, on one level, that was actually kind of nice to go from the humidity of South Carolina,

living near the ocean, to the dry heat of Las Vegas. But I have to tell you that after

a couple of days of that, I was ready to have the humidity back and when we arrived home from Las

Vegas we got the humidity and it it felt good it was like I like some

moisture in the air all right so here's that's the context. Here's, here's, here's the secret.

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