The Long Walk

For most of yesterday sashagee wasn't feeling well, so I had a lot of free time. Around 4 p.m. I thought it'd be nice to go for a walk, so I put on some flip-flops, walked out the door, and headed for the north side of the lakeshore trail. I started walking, kept walking, kept walking, and, well:

It's something I've always wanted to do, to walk along the lakeshore on a warm summer evening, but there was never previously a good time. This weekend, Laila is at the grandparents and sashagee, so I finally had the time. I initially only planned to walk to Belmont, about half that distance there. But around Belmont I thought, "Oh, I could walk to Fullerton, it's only a few more blocks" and then when I got to Fullerton I could see the skyscrapers of downtown in the light of the setting sun and I thought, "...you know, those don't seem that far away. I bet I could make it there without taking too much time." And so I walked the entire way.

After I had been gone an hour and a half sashagee texted me asking if I had met up with someone and I was like "Nope! Still walking!"

I took the bus home and got back around 8:30 p.m. (the Red Line had a lot of weirdness since it's not running underground on weekends currently). sashagee was really worried that my feet would hurt the next day, but they don't. After I got back, we went out to a bar with lisekatevans and afschifler and afschifler was astonished I did it in flip-flops, but as I answered, feet are made for walking.

Maybe I'll do it again later this summer. I should get new flip-flops, though--I've nearly worn holes through my current ones.