#3 HIKING

I'm not sure why I like hiking so much.  Although I have a decent amount of leg muscles, I tend to hike hard enough to often times get out of breath.  My feet begin to hurt and my hands get puffy.  My face turns red and I sweat so much that it's embarrassing.  Yesterday when I went on a six mile hike with my son, Thomas, we encountered a grassy section of trail that had so many ticks that we ended up running and darting through until we were laughing and out of breath.  The ticks had been crawling up our legs at breakneck speed.  There seemed to be dozens of them and there was just a touch of panic in our voices.  We have never experienced that before in all the miles we have hiked.  Yet, I love to hike.  Not sure what it is but yes, I love it.