I’m trying to make it a habit to go for an hour-long walk on the beach in the afternoon. I go sometime between two and four and have found that the beach is always changing. Sometimes, it is very smooth and hard packed with barely any wave action. Once, it had a lot of shoals and deep tidal pools. Today, it was one tiny dune after another, just enough slope to add a bit more effort.

I’ve been listening to podcasts on my iPhone while I walk. I don’t mind being alone with my thoughts, but like when I was delivering fliers in Lethbridge, having something to listen to gives me added motivation. It also helps me time my walks to make sure I’m getting at least an hour. Right now, I’m listening to BBC Radio’s ‘Cabin Pressure‘ series. I hope the waves are drowning out the sound of my laughter. The series is hilarious!

An episode is 28 minutes, so I when I get to the end of one, I turn around. I start them when I get to a more isolated part of the beach, so I’m actually getting in a walk that is longer than an hour, having about another ten minutes or so each way to get home from where I stop and start the podcasts.

While I usually resist the urge to collect seashells, I couldn’t help myself yesterday and brought home proof that Mexico has unicorns: