Talking about walking when we sold our home we decided to go traveling in our caravan for 2 years before getting a new home built on-the block of land we’d purchased before selling our home . During our travels we stayed in dry few caravan parks instead we camped in forests / national parks / in the red dust of Western Australia and each and everywhere we camped we’d walk and explore our surroundings I remember we walked 12 km in one day at an location in Victoria exploring the area
Walking beside a railroad track Richard D. Lackman, M.D. April 10, 2017 Something about walking beside a railroad track Induces fond nostalgia in my mind As dusty memories come rushing back No longer in obscurity confined Is it the steel rails running to forever Or ties so neatly spaced that lead me on And from my daily drudgery dissever As to a kinder place I'm quickly drawn Railroad tracks are pastoral and silent Calm, enticing, lovely and serene Taking me somewhere beyond the present Outside my life and commonplace routine The sweet smell of the creosote suffuses Combining with the greenery nearby Inducing relaxation as if muses Were singing incantations to the sky As images of stately windowed clubcars, Gondolas each with blackened hills of coal, Ride behind an engine named "Exemplar" With syncopated hissing as she rolls But not today as there are no trains running On this decrepit long abandoned track Just bees and moths and butterfly's all shunning My shadow as it fills each rocky crack And so I walk with no one else beside me Absorbing this extraordinary scene Leaving harsh reality behind me Engulfed in beauty most have never seen.
Walking with (your best friend) coffee is a little-understood feat of physics "Walking with coffee is something most of us do every day without considering the balancing act it requires. In fact, there’s a lot of physics preventing the coffee from spilling over." "The coffee, a thermally agitated fluid contained in a cup, has internal degrees of freedom that interact with the cup, which, in turn, interacts with the human carrier" “While humans possess a natural, or gifted, ability to interact with complex objects, our understanding of those interactions — especially at a quantitative level, is next to zero,” said Ying-Cheng Lai, an Arizona State University electrical engineering professor. “We have no conscious ability to analyze the influences of external factors, like noise or climate, on our interactions.” "Yet, understanding these external factors is a fundamental issue in applied fields such as soft robotics." “For example, in design of smart prosthetics, it is becoming increasingly important to build in natural modes of flexibility that mimic the natural motion of human limbs,” said Brent Wallace, a former undergraduate student of Lai’s and now a doctoral student in ASU’s Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. “Such improvements make the prosthetic feel more comfortable and natural to the user.” (READ MORE)