[nagdu] Amount of walking was BOOK ON SELF-DEFENSE

[Jewel S.]

I thought I was the only one who did that! When I moved to Raleigh, I
told myself I would go out a little further every day. My first
adventure was just to the end of the street (about three blocks) to
find the nearby family-run food mart. Then it was to IHOP to meet a
friend for breakfast (2 more blocks!), then to Cameron Village (almost
a mile), and beyond! I have been forcing myself to go out there and
look and not wait for people to show me where to go since I got here.
Of course, it does help that anywhere I go in Raleigh, I'm likely to
come across at least one pedestrian...there have been a few times I
had to knock on a door or flag down a car because I was totally lost
and no one around...but it sure taught me some valuable lessons.

You can't succeed if you never fail.

~Jewel

On 3/12/10, Tamara Smith-Kinney <tamara.8024 at comcast.net> wrote:
> Oh, yeah.  Moving to a new city just so you can go out and discover it by
> getting lost is the best.  /grin/  Not everybody gets it, though, for some
> reason.  I've learned to get a feel for people before I blurt out my dirty
> little secret, because it just scares the willies out of some folks to think
> of a blind person doing that.  /lol/
>
> Come to think of it, I've been here in Portland since 2006...  Could be why
> I'm feeling like travel is too easy?  Oh, well, there is still plenty to
> explore.  I just need to go out and find it.  Thank heavens spring is just
> around the corner!
>
> Tami Smith-Kinney
>
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> Brian,
>
> I thought I was the only one who enjoyed getting intentionally lost.
> I love doing that; not only do I get great exercise but I find great
> new places I never would've found before and I feel like I improve my
> internal "city map."
>
> I moved to New Orleans in 2003.  I'd never even visited here before,
> and I spent the first three months just getting lost and found again.
> It was a fantastic experience and I learned so much.
>
>
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