I watch my weight, exercise, still work a physical job... but can't seem to stop the on-set of getting older. My balance is also giving me fits. Wife said I seem to have a 'wandering' gait when we were exploring on our vacation. Adding the memory loss, guess it's time to see the Doc for some test.
My imbalance was caused by the lens in my new prescription glasses, once this was corrected my balance corrected too. But I've heard hearing loss can be a cause of imbalance too. You sure that "wandering gait" on your vacation wasn't caused by one drink to many Tim?
There is many things I miss going north fishing each year. Walking through the woods and swamps looking for something I have never seen before [plants, insects, and reptiles]. The one thing I miss the most was getting up in the morning going onto the deck of the boat getting my snorkeling gear on grabbing the fish spear and jumping over board hunting dinner. I have scuba dive in the past that was neat especially at night seeing all those beautiful thing and then shutting the light off it was like you were in outer space as all the little microscopic animals began to light up like stars in the sky and if you passed your hand through it was like the fairy dust you see in cartoons. Snooping around reefs was somewhat like walking through the woods you never knew what you might see next.
I miss being able to go for long walks. The hiking trails I made all around our property are overgrown now.
I miss my mountain bike! I really got into it in my fifties, built tremendous legs, lungs, and heart but I lost so much of my sense of balance that I had to give it up. Now I do my roaming on a four-wheel mobility scooter.
Ride a bicycle. In the Midwest you ride against the traffic, so you can always see how close the car is coming towards you, and can take evasive action. Here you have to ride with traffic, so you only have a dinky rear view mirror to warn you of danger, plus I think the drivers here like hitting bicyclists. Also, too many steep hills to pedal up.
Here in Maine, pretty much every adult riding a bicycle is a tourist. Very few of our roads have shoulders and drivers will assume that there's something wrong with you if you're over sixteen and on a bicycle. A lot of people are angered by bicyclists. Nevertheless, we're supposed to ride with the traffic, so in order to be reasonably safe on a bicycle, you have to risk a ticket.
You see lots of people on bikes here, think there's even a bike riders marathon or whatever they're called. We have bike lanes but I hate them because it's kind of where the turning lane is also when you want to make a right turn.....if you're not careful...while you're turning a biker will sneak up on you. We've had lots of bike riding accidents. Even deaths I think. It's mostly adults I see riding.
Way long ago in Kentucky there were lots of bike riders, both kids and adults. Too much drinking and suspended licenses maybe accounted for the adults. No bike lanes, but the lanes were mostly all wide, drivers stayed to the left and bikers hung to the right, and since you rode against traffic it was easy to see if the car was coming too close. If one did (say a drunk driver), you just headed into the ditch. Not even a drunk driver would follow you into the ditch. I think the ditches were designed to be car traps....once you got in, it would take hours (if not a tow truck) to get out. Sorry to hear that stupid law of riding with traffic has gone countrywide. Further proof that the movie 'Idiocracy' was prophetic, and that the crazies have taken over the asylum.
Dunno. Just about everything I enthusiastically used to do got pretty boring and the things I used to think were boring I now do enthusiastically.