“Remoted – Hybrid” – Day 765 (Wednesday) – walking

New garage.

There was walking today. After arriving downtown a few minutes early, the path taken to the office was the long route. Instead of walking left out of the garage, there was a turn to the right, then a right on French Street, right on Bridge Street, right on Merrimack and straight to the bank. Crazy early morning doings. 

This afternoon, the temperature was in the 60s. There was a walk from the Bank over to the Hamilton Canal district where the Niki Tsongas bridge was dedicated last week. It was a bit less of a dedicated walk and more of a walking photo tour in the area with the new garage, cool apartment buildings, and a path around the canal. 

It was a solid 25 minutes of semi-brisk walking with frequent quick stops to take approximately three dozen photos with the new cell phone. The clouds were interesting, and not having been out in the area since 2019 or early 2020, it was all new and fresh. Plus, since the last time I was there, quite a lot was quite literally new and fresh -- the bridge, the new 201 Canal Apartments, the Courthouse, the sculpture near the canal. 

Sculpture near the canal.

Even though it was warm-ish, I was chilly when first starting out and walking faster seemed to be the remedy. Walk fast, take a photo. Walk a few feet more, take a photo. Repeat. It was a good break from the desk that I too frequently fail to leave all day except to visit the loo.

The Spring ’22 plan is for more walks in the warm weather. Pre-pandemic, there was regular lunchtime walking tracked with a fitness app I couldn’t find in the Google Play store today during the entire one minute I spent looking for it. Maybe next time. Once the novelty of the scenery wears off, the focus can shift to time, distance, and tracking the personal bests.