27Jun2025 - This is turning into a journal/journey-down-memory-lane thing. I'm looking through my old photo albums, and at the same time, other memories and thoughts are popping up in my mind. This is what old(er) people do, yes? 9May2025 - I decided to leave FB, and just share my photos etc here. Thank you to the special people who check in here...(7Dec2022 - crlazlo meanderings 2 is now 2.1 - I will continue to use it as a preview/workspace for my FB posts, but I will also start organizing the many photos from my retirement years, and also start a journal/memories thing. That's the plan anyway.)

Sunday, December 1, 2024

I'm slowly increasing my walking goals now. This morning I decided to Walk to the Holiday Sale at Landers SuperStore over by Ayala. Landers is one of the two Costco like stores here in Cebu City. I figured if I left at 8:30am and kept a steady pace, maybe I could get there in time for the 9am opening. Two diversions delayed my goal arrival time: waiting at a crosswalk, a guy asked me "where are you from?" and I told him "US". We talked and walked together for a few blocks. You can see a little diversion squiggle in the second photo where we visited for a short time in front of his language school, and then went into the patio area in front of the school for more chatting...Chinese, a tour guide in Europe for mainland Chinese, who wants to get better at English for his work. He's more fluent in French than English. Anyway, when I resumed my walk, I was using my GPS and following the Directions it was giving me. It's funny how they do Not walk here!, for different reasons - it's warm, there are lots of Jeepneys and Taxis, etc. I clicked on Walking, and I wasn't taking shortcuts like I normally would when I walk. I finally figured out that the Walk portions in the Directions Map only pertained to the short change-overs between different Jeepneys. I zoomed in and instead of a little person emoji, I was a little Red Car. Haha... My MapMyWalk stats: I walked 3.03 miles, but with my socializing, and getting disoriented as the little Red Car, it took me 1 hr and 28 minutes to get there. I then did my shopping and took a taxi back home. If I had less to carry, I would have walked back home :)

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