Heavy rains were predicted for today, so yesterday I made an extra effort to get out and power-walk for a bit. Normally I get all wired up as soon as I get out of the car. I fire up my GPS, put my cell-phone on extra loud and plug my head into my Zen MP3 player.
For reasons unknown I just grabbed my hiking stick this time and just got on the trail. About a quarter of the way through my walk I heard the wrestling of leaves and got sidetracked watching a pair of squirrils play just a few feet in front of me.
It was amazing how they were totally oblivious to my being there and just ran around me as if I was just another tree. (Was glad they didn’t try to climb me!)
Once I moved on, I realized that I didn’t heave my headphones on and if I did, I would have totally missed this experience.
So now I question if my next walk will be with or with the phones? Thinking about it, I believe the habit was was picked up out of bordom when I used to simply do laps in the park. I think what I’ll do now is change trails when I get bored and keep the podcast listening for work.
As for the GPS and cell phone… well I just had to twitter so the cell was on and loud and the GPS was booted as I wanted to record some coordinates in an effort to organize my walks.
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