Good morning, friends. Welcome to Walking as Fitness, the podcast. This morning, I'm on an early morning walk just outside our neighborhood, passing by that lake that I told you about a couple of weeks ago that has an alligator in it,

although I haven't seen the alligator in a few weeks.

So I don't know if it's still there.

As you can tell, there's a little bit of traffic.

I'm on a sidewalk, so I'm safe. Up ahead is a field, and I don't know what the scientific term is, but it's kind of like that early morning, low-hanging fog.

It's really quite beautiful.

The sun hasn't quite arisen.

We've got daylight, but the sun hasn't come up over the horizon.

Temperature is comfortable, although it is humid.

I actually like the humidity.

I'd rather be humid than dry.

Experienced the dry heat a couple of weeks back in Las Vegas.

Talked about that.

And while in the middle of the day, it felt more comfortable.

My skin got really dry. And so I like a little bit of humidity in the air.

This morning I want to talk about something that normally would not talk about for another few months.

I have, you remember the comic strip Calvin and Hobbs? In my opinion, the greatest comic strip ever.

It was only done for 10 years.

The cartoonist was Bill Watterson.

I think it was like 1986 to 1996, somewhere around there.

And it was just brilliant.

Calvin was a six-year-old boy.

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