My stroll

[Silurian]

I stroll every morning with my dog (StreetWolf) and daughter (SlingApe). It's hard to get out of the warm cozy bed, but I'm almost always smiling once I get to the street.

It's usually very quiet - this morning, being a holiday here, it was especially quiet. The crossing guards for the school weren't setting out their warning cones, the delis weren't rattling up their lock curtains, there weren't streams of taxis trying to out-run each other by the next red light.

The air was very clean, the sun was low, but bright. How could it not put a smile on your face?

Daughter slept heavily against my chest, the dog wasn't darting this way and that - it was the sort of pace that a morning stroll should be. I got some coffee and drank most of it on the stoop. The dog (GuardWolf) barked at a couple of pedestrians who wandered just a little too close to the gate for her comfort, they smiled back at her.

I went upstairs and woke up my wife so that she could get herself together while I was still minding the baby. 20 minutes later I was on my bike heading over an empty bridge to Midtown Manhattan.

That is a very good post.

 

[peter grimes]

Thanks!

I really liked the style of the OP - reminded me of Vonnegut. So I thought I'd try and write with a voice that's different from my ordinary posting style.

Since, you know, we're talking about strolls. Which are decidedly different from walks, trips, or hikes.

 

[Mr. Dictator]

Have you done any polling on the popularity of this maneuver?

No, but plenty with it.

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

No, but plenty with it.

Oooh....you're good

 

[Phrossack]

You must have a lot of trouble drinking water, considering it boils at 100°C and above. Or are you talking Kelvin? In that case, it must be hard too, considering it freezes at anything below 273° (under normal cirumcstances)

I'm Yankish, good sir. I use the old system. It sucks but it's what we're stuck with.

 

[peter grimes]

Oooh....you're good

Took me until your comment to get that. Shameful.

 

[Ironsided]

OP, there's a person like that who is waiting for you. Go wake them up, or get woken up.

I sure hope so bro. I’m not half a man without a woman. I’m a fifth. Quite literally.

I stroll every morning with my dog (StreetWolf) and daughter (SlingApe). It's hard to get out of the warm cozy bed, but I'm almost always smiling once I get to the street...

Thanks man for raising the bar and my mood. SlingApe. Beautiful. That is a good stroll.

 

[Angst]

I'm going to take a stroll for a bottle of ketchup now. Does that count?

 

[Arctic Daishi]

People walk in America?

Yeah, I love hiking through the jungles of Missouri.

 

[Leonel]

You know I should try taking a walk one of these days and not like a walk down to a particular place but like see how far I can go in an hour and back or something. I was primarily inspired when I walked a mile from the car rental place to my mechanic's where I was picking up my car after its radiator burst.

I remember walking along the Snoqualmie Valley trail with someone I was dating and she was way more adept at physical activities so I didn't particularly enjoy it since I was just trying to keep up but perhaps just a leisurely stroll would be fun.

 

[Phrossack]

Yeah, I love hiking through the jungles of Missouri.

Come a few weeks I'll just be hiding from the Missourible weather in my basement. Last summer was hellish.

 

[adamishere]

Welcome to CFC

Thanks!

 

[sophie]

Why would they serve IPAs at an Irish Pub? Surely it'd be mostly Stouts and Porters with a couple ales?

 

[Traitorfish]

Irish pubs in the UK don't tend to ham it up as much as in the US, at least not outside of city centres. Mostly they're basically normal pubs that happened to be owned by Irish guys who play up the association.

 

[peter grimes]

Irish pubs in the UK don't tend to ham it up as much as in the US, at least not outside of city centres. Mostly they're basically normal pubs that happened to be owned by Irish guys who play up the association.

It's not an irish pub if it doesn't have overpriced fish $ chips, green metallic shamrocks on the walls, a mirror with the Emerald Isle painted on it, and a celtic immigrant pulling the faucets. At least, that's how the owners of "irish" pubs here do it.

Subtle, no?

 

[Farm Boy]

Peter, thanks for the fun post. Actually captured those fleeting moments of peace in the new day. The ones before the sun burns off the fog of the night before and the work must begin.

 

[Silurian]

Went for a stroll Friday evening from Kingswear to Brixham in south Devon.
It was sunny with a moderate wind and I only passed one person until I got to the outskirts of Brixham. No pubs on this bit of coast so I had a pint when I got to Brixham.
17.6km with 924m ascent took me just over 4 hours.

http://www.southwestcoastpath.com/walksdb/176/

There are some photos that people have taken if you click on the little rectangles on the map.
Some of the views on this bit of coast are magnificent.

 

[NickyJ]

Stuff

If you wrote a book out of this, it would make the top ten of the best sellers list. You could call it Fifty Shades of Sudanese Socialism.

 

[Cutlass]

I tried to go for a stroll on a small trail on public land near here yesterday. But it was too flooded out to make it all the way around.

 

[Silurian]

There was a small rock fall on the way out of Kingswear so the coast path was diverted slightly further up the hill through the village.