Bottle Episode! Road trip!

"Sometimes finding a key is not the start of a grand adventure,
but the end of one." - Jon Mooallem, right now.


Friends, I bumbled my way into a high-intensity snafu while
recording the walk this morning. A boatload of genuine drama
ensued, relative to our typical walks together, at least. It was
so bad that I felt obligated to initiate the WALKING podcast's
first-ever "take two." And so, here it is: take two.


The other day, I heard Gwyneth Paltrow interviewed on fellow
podcaster Dax Shepherd's Armchair Expert podcast. (Incidentally,
both Dax--if I may--and I appear on Vulture's new list of 100
podcasts you should be listening to. Then again, not to be
ungrateful, but I'm not sure how worthwhile that list is, being
that all lists are sort of silly and that Mystery Show wasn't on
it.) Anyway, in addition to confessing how much she loved a good
walk, and extolling the emotionally curative powers of walking,
Gwyneth (if I may) told Dax (if I may) something that stuck with
me. She said that, as a public person, she feels obligated to
share her foibles and insecurities and mistakes with the world;
as uncomfortable as it might be, the alternative--to merely
broadcast curated images of her supposedly poised, perfect
lifestyle--would be dishonest and cruel. In that spirit, I
decided to share the details of my snafu at the ad break. 


Also, this week: Squirrel chirps, a happy encounter with my
friend Zach, barbed wire (inaudible), a rustic foot bridge.


This week's walk is sponsored by the always-fascinating
podcast THE MEMORY PALACE , by Nate DiMeo. It's
another of the hundred podcasts you should be listening to,
according to the aforementioned list which, as noted, I feel some
skepticism toward, even as I also feel great delight. It's
complicated.