THIS is vacation?!- a new perspective

Vacation- ironically this may be the milestone of change in this journey. I looked up a mountain nearby for a short hike --have been coming here for years and had no idea it existed. I never knew because I was content to stay in,not explore,& stick to the usual activity that everyone else was doing (antiquing, reading, driving. I haven't been there yet but I plan to go-we'll probably drive to the summit and then my son & I will do a short trail. We're pretty inexperienced at this but he loves hiking and I''m trying to make it something we can do together. I need a buddy though LOL!

Some people in my family think I'm strange & I am spending a bit more time away from them at times but I decided it's ok to do another 2 laps of the beach even if they want to go back to the house - ok to make me and my healthy interests a priority. It is difficult to be the change agent in a family but I have to do it for me. I have to give my son a good example too-healthy active parents are important no matter what the size & vacation can be just as fun exploring as sitting or building sandcastles.

I've never gone on vacation and looked for ways to get out & up! Just discovered snails eating on rocks in a tidepool that always seemed "too far" to walk.
I've done almost 5000 steps and it's only 9:30 a.m. I need vacation every week!

It's not an overnight huge change on the scale, but I think oneday I will look back and see this as a huge milestone on the journey. It's a cosmic shift in how I do vacation & I think a reminder that even though it's a long road and the scale nay be slow to budge, I have days that are awful eating days & way out of balance, my mindset has changed. I didn't feel like I "had to" walk like a chore but it was just something I did.

...and it feels amazing!

UPDATE: 8:45 pm- 11245 steps! 4.62 miles! 20 flights of stairs equivalent!