How to spend life in AR vol.2

（日本語は下記に記載）

Continuing on, I will be talking about what else I have done/have been doing in AR.

Activity 2; Walking&Cycling

Though I enjoy baking, I cannot just stay home and be a baker wanna be all the time, so I go out for a walk/cycle to the park close to our house every once in a while. (I'm talking about a HUGE park and not a Kids' park you would see in Japan...FYI) There are a lot of people walking, running, cycling...and poke-ing at the park.

When I was back in Tokyo, I walked quite a lot simply by going and coming back from work. However here, I need to make myself walk otherwise I would not be walking as much as I used to.

In order to stay healthy or at least to get the same number of steps a day, I try to go out even if I don't have any other specific reasons to do so.

Walking in america (& in AR) is like, you walk for 20-30mins yet your view is still the same and you still cannot reach anywhere. So my husband was nice enough to get me a nice bicycle so I can actually arrive to a destination.

My new buddy "Mrs. Monkey" 🐵

So I walk, ride a bike and walk...aiming to reach at least 8000 steps a day👟

Within the park, there is a lake Fayetteville surrounded by a beautiful trail. (takes about 30mins to ride around the lake, appx 25km.)

There is nothing specific that I find so interesting in the park, but this long trail is made for non-automatic vehicles and pedestrians, so I feel quite safe walking/riding on the trail.

Surprisingly (?) Fayetteville is very biker-friendly town and there are bike lanes in many streets and you can find many trails like this. (Hence I have seen a lot of serious riders here. I wonder if someday I might become one of them but I'm okay being a casual rider for now.)

You are pretty much surrounded by (almost) wild nature while you are on the trail, so you obviously see a lot of birds, bugs, rabbits....and deers!!!

「A wild deer appeared!」literally...

When it gets dark you can also see fireflies.

Don't know how they are treated here but they are only seen in the country side in Japan nowadays. When you see a lot of fireflies, I assume it means we are in the deep country side.

I do miss walking around Yurakucho area after work back in Tokyo, but hope this walking/cycling on the trail cleans my lungs up with some fresh air!

Adios!

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前回に引き続き、アーカンソーでの過ごし方第２弾！でございます。

アクティビティ　その２：ウォーキング＆サイクリング

さすがにずっと家にこもってパンを焼いているわけにもいかないので、気分転換に

家の近くに大きな公園（と言っても子供達が遊ぶための遊具があるだけではなく、ウォーキング、ランニング、サイクリングのできるどでかい公園）によくウォーキング＆サイクリングに行きます。

東京にいた時は、意識しなくとも行きと帰りの通勤時でそれなりに歩いていたつもりなのですが、車社会のアメリカ（特にここみたいな田舎）では意識しないとなかなか歩くこともありません。なんなら大型店舗が立ち並ぶ駐車場では、店Aから目と鼻の先の店Bに行くのにも車を動かします。（いや歩けよ！って思うでしょ？それでも気がつくと体が勝手に車で移動したがるようになるんですよ。あー怖い怖い。）

ということで運動不足解消のためにも、特に用事はなくても外に出るようにしています。

広いアメリカでは歩いても歩いてもどこにも辿り着けないので、自転車好きの旦那さんが気を利かせてくれて、この地で私もチャリダーデビューしました🚲（ちゃんとヘルメットも被ってますよ！）