WINTER ESCAPE PLAN

Bought airline tickets this weekend for my Mexico trip coming up in a few months. I’ve been seeing all these airline strikes and thought it best to retain my tickets. Glad I did as they were only $598 for round-trip Economy Plus seating. Need that extra legroom for my tall self. 😉

It was my first weekend while my fast is active. It was easier than I thought it would be. So far I’ve lost 10lbs. since last Monday. I’m doing a 18/6 fast. Don’t eat for 18 hours and eat within a 6 hour window.

Spent the weekend dog-sitting my “sister” Kasie and playing World of Warcraft Classic. Roasted some pecans on Saturday and had a delicious dinner of fried chicken breast, baked sweet potato from a local farm, and some garlic roasted asparagus. It was a larger meal than what I make during the week. Man it was so good.

COVID-15

My “COVID-15” has almost turned into a COVID-50. I’m so disgusted with myself but that is going to change after this weekend. I have no other events till the week after Christmas. That gives me the perfect opportunity to concentrate on my fitness routine and, more importantly, control my food and alcohol intake. I exercise most every day anyways but admittedly I’ve been off the rails drinking for the last few months. Inflated by all the events and partying last month. I haven’t been on trail since the end of June and would very much like to get in a couple more hikes before the end of the year. In some ways COVID is worse this year and the stress regarding it has been far worse for me as well.

CANDLEBOX – BALTIMORE SOUNDSTAGE

I woke up in the morning and had breakfast as per usual and checked out around 10am. I was bound for Baltimore Inner Harbor. This was the grand finale of the week so I had a waterfront, harbor view room at the Marriott. It’s a great location for visits to the area. I ended up posted up at Phillips Crabhouse bar for the afternoon and early evening drinking and eating. A friend told me about Candlebox playing across the street and for $27.50 who could pass that up? Not this guy.