Just gorgeous!
Remind me to pack my hiking boots and backpack when I come for a visit :-D.
Perfect Omah, I wish I was there right now…
It’s beautiful Bratti I have to say you would t catch me walking through forests where I might run across a grizzly near !
Started the day off right, this weeks routine 15000 paces 8.45am-10.45am go and do a bit of driving work, Dog walk 2.00pm ish 5000 paces, general paces and afternoon job 10000 paces, that’s the way to do it.
I guess so! Keeping track for the year?
Dogs and man will need new shoes.
Blimey, that’s 14 miles a day … :shock:
Yes 98 miles a week, 434 miles a month (31 day month), 5110 miles year, the circumference of the Earth every five years or so, walk a mile in my shoes.
Well, not here but my husband and I have come across quite a few black bears during our interior camping trips while canoeing. We had one peering in a tent window. Our dog barked at it and it ran away. We’ve had them cross in front of us while on our hiking trails. It gets the blood pumping that’s for sure.
Of course we haven’t done that in a while. Canoeing and kayaking yes but not interior for weeks at a time.
Todays walk…over the railway bridge while the 11:49 from Hull to Doncaster was passing beneath…
I popped out from the wood and spotted a beautiful field of Oil seed in flower…Beware the dark skies behind though…
On to the lane and some peace and quiet after the walk down the busy A18…
Always my favourite part of the walk, and it’s the same route as my early morning five mile run…
The last part of the walk, over the railway and back home. With plenty of sunny spells and no rain, a perfect walk.
Now that looks like a lovely walk old grey fox.
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Urban Walks for me when I was working.
Urban walks again when I moved back to Shrewsbury, a beautiful historic town with so much to see and explore.
How times have changed.
A walk round the local supermarket was challenging yesterday.
Thanks Bratti, the lane is just at the end of our road and it takes you right out into the country. Miles of open space and arable farmland punctuated with the occasional wood. I used to wander here as a boy and it hasn’t changed much since then.
I’m missing getting out and about Swimmy, and long for the day when I can once again explore new places. Shrewsbury sounds like a nice place to visit and it will certainly be on my ‘Places to Visit’ list. During my time as a courier I visited places I would not normally visit, and was surprised how different and interesting previously unknown places turned out to be. we still live a beautiful country…
It’s good to hear that you are managing to get out and about, even if it is to the local supermarket…Well done Swim…
That looks like a good walk OGF.
Lucky you for not much changing because when I visit the haunts of my childhood the places are nigh-on unrecognizable.
Mostly because of new housing developments, yet some say we’ve not been building enough for years.
What a pretty spring day! I don’t know why, but it always surprises me how much the country lanes of plains most everywhere look the similar - Russia, Yorkshire, Kansas, Croatia - with their grain fields, wide open skies, volunteer trees, the occasional farmhouse, and even a railroad tracks.
What surprises me more is how few people you see in such places! Pure enjoyment! Glad you made it a day, OGF.
The village has changed to some degree Zaphod, and there are plans afoot to build yet more houses, but the lanes and fields beyond the village, are still the same when I visited from the next village where I grew up.
When details were first posted about the planned development of around 200 houses I was angry and wanted to join the protestations, and then I thought about forty eight years ago, when a new bungalow estate was being raised, and Mrs Fox and I walked over the footings of the bungalow where I would spend at least the next fifty years.
Where would I have lived if the local residents had successfully campaigned against the development just like I was thinking of doing now…?
Thanks Surfermom, after a period of icy winds scurrying off the North sea all the way from Iceland, it was a brief interval of calm and warm spring sunshine… Unfortunately it didn’t last and we have had snow for the last two days. I agree all the lanes look the same, just the locations are different…
I think country lanes were provided for you and me…
Yep, that same logic haunts me, when I look at what has happened around here, the new self righteous who live on previous green belt land, who complain about new development, bloody hypocritical Old Buggers.
You live in a beautiful area.
It must be nice living in such an area that hasn’t changed much
It has it’s compensations Bratti… I can shake of the rubbish of the 21st century with a stroll or a run out in the country just five minutes from where I live…