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Let’s Go Walking! Join me for a virtual walking support group
Just Want to Talk | Last Active: Dec 17, 2023 | Replies (4297)Comment receiving replies
@sueinmn Wow, you can remember songs from Girl Scout days? What a memory! Yikes! Got just a 1 1/2 mile walk in today, but then the wind started. Not my favorite. Can’t remember any more walking songs but I so well remember our days in Germany when one big national hobby is walking/volksmarche. Every weekend different towns and villages would mark out a walking path, set up wurst (sausage) stands, and get a band to play traditional music. The walking paths wound thru the hearts of the old towns, thru the woods and the vineyards. We could walk 5-6 miles without blinking. And the kids would earn a medal at the end which I still have. Nice memories! Have you seen anything like a volksmarche where you live?
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Hi Becky - Thanks for the memory. My brother lived in Germany for many years, and used to go walking on weekends. We joined a local volksmarche on vacation one year with our girls, and ended up at an old brewery on a mountaintop at a festival. On another trip we walked with our cousins in Slovenia - but they have a different name for it. I have never lived in a German community, so we haven't experienced it here, but our very Eastern European neighborhood had some kind of festival every weekend from Easter until Autumn, and we went to all of them, as well as celebrating our Dad's French Canadian heritage. Great memories.
Yesterday I walked to the lakeside dunes with my neighborhood and climbed up the hills in knee deep snow, then slid down on our butts. I'm a wee bit stiff today.
Sue
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That sounds like SO much fun! Wow! What a great idea!