April 25, 2025 • 18 mins
Ever feel like you need a getaway yesterday—but without the airport drama, packing chaos, or actually, y'know… leaving town? Same. That’s why we were downright shocked to discover Rob Wallace Park, a stunning hidden gem just 25 minutes from home that somehow managed to stay off our radar for over a decade. (Rude.)
Armed with nothing but leftover snacks from the fridge and a fierce need to escape our home office walls, we set out on an unplanned adventure—and ended up stumbling into pure magic. Picture this: forest bathing with chirping birds, turtles popping up to say hi, and a 70-foot-deep quarry formed by accident (because of course it was). It was equal parts history, serenity, and “why didn’t we do this sooner?!”
This episode is your reminder that peace, beauty, and a little soul refresh don't require plane tickets or perfectly curated Pinterest itineraries. Sometimes, all it takes is stepping outside, being present, and letting nature do her thing.
We’re spilling the tea on what made this park a total win—think accessible trails, clean bathrooms (praise hands!), educational wildlife stations, and tools like AllTrails and Eventbrite to help you find your next local escape.
So, Divas, here's your challenge: what magic might be hiding in your own backyard? It’s time to be a tourist in your own town. You never know what you’ll find… but we’re betting it’s just what your soul’s been craving.
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
Hey guys.
So I don't know if you can hearthe birds chirping or the
loveliness that is all around us.
We are out in nature.
Today we decided to come out toRob Wallace Park, so it's a
park in our city, a local parkto us in Concord, or actually
we're in Midland, we're in alittle town next to our town, so
(00:40):
it's a beautiful park.
We've've never been here before.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Yeah, it was interesting because we needed to
get away for the day.
We just needed to get out Daytrip and we were looking for
somewhere to go and you found it.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
It's beautiful weather and it has hiking trails
and I was like let's just goget out and be with nature.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
So I say from you it was.
So I say how, like, for me,from you it was about 15 minutes
and for me it's maybe 20, 25,yeah, I would say so.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Yeah, maybe 25, 30, minutes absolutely is a hidden
gem.
This park is only about 10years old, but it is they.
They pretty much carved it outin the middle of the forest.
It's so like everything, andthen of a quarry yes, yeah, um,
tell them a little bit moreabout the quarry because we will
have video footage.
It was gorgeous down there.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
It's so beautiful yeah, I didn't know that it was
going to be here, but it wasinteresting.
So you go to the very back ofthe park.
It's a huge park but spaciousbathroom at the beginning,
bathroom in the middle of thedistance of it and then at the
very back of the park is thequarry and, as we're walking,
really nice.
Adventure trail is what Icalled it because it's some ups
(01:53):
and downs.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
yeah, it had some inclines for sure, and it's a
pretty narrow path.
So, although we'll get intothat later, this park is very
handicap accessible friendly,but this particular trail that
we were doing was not.
I mean, it's nice that they dohave the trail up above too.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Right.
So we were walking around thequarry and we saw signs that
said obviously don't go swimming.
But then it said don't let yourpets in there.
And we're like, why is that?
Because you can fish.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
I don't know if you can fish back, you could you
can't fish back there, and theyeven sell bait here.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Yeah, but they had that up front so I wasn't sure
if you could.
We didn't see fish back there,but so we were talking like
what's in the water?
Why can't you, why can't thedogs even get in there?
Then we kept walking around.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
There's a sign that says immediate drop off 70 feet
deep yeah, and what happened, Ithink, is they were mining back
in like the 1800s and they hit anatural spring, and then that's
what made this huge quarrywhich was very interesting, and
as we walked around we kind ofgot on a little bit higher
elevation and looking down youcan see where it drops off.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Yeah, that was really neat drop off.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Yeah, we're in finding nemo not the drop off.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
That's funny, but it was, it's.
It's beautiful.
This park is absolutelybeautiful, but it's important.
Let's talk about day trippingbefore we dive even deeper into
the park itself, becausesometimes, when you want to get
away, it's not all about packingthere.
You don't want to packeverything up, you don't want to
have to make reservations, youjust need to get out of your own
(03:32):
little bubble.
I agree, and the fact that thishas been here for 10 years and
it's 25 to 30 minutes from eachof us and we had not been here
is just.
It goes to show that there arestill things to discover in your
own hometown.
Absolutely, and this isabsolutely a hidden gem.
It's a nature I know it's likea nature have preserved.
(03:54):
Yeah, it is yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
And they make everything very eco-friendly.
They have habitats and stuffand even in the little um front
office that you go in they havesnakes and all different kinds
of wildlife around hissingcockroaches and all different
kinds of animals and they tellyou about the native species
around here, and we saw.
(04:16):
We saw, I guess, a crane oregret.
I'm going to have to do alittle research.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
See.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
I said heron is that heron.
Oh, maybe, maybe it could havebeen any of those.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
We are so many animals.
But yes, up front, at the veryentrance of the park, we're all
like the things are.
They had signs of types of fishthat would be in the water,
animals like the frogs.
They had a display of what kindof frogs would be around the
area.
So they're telling you?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
what was the wildlife ?
Speaker 1 (04:45):
they would have, which I thought was very
interesting.
I love those little things whenyou walk through and you can
see the signs, kind of likegoing to a zoo and reading all
the information.
Um then we found two amazingthings.
Okay, we keep jumping back today, tripping why that's
important?
We keep getting into thisamazing park we are in in love
with this park though?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Yes, I absolutely am.
I would highly recommend it.
Five stars, eight plus.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
But the most, I would say, beneficial thing about
on-the-wim day tripping thing iswe picked this what two days
ago?
Yeah, we just decided to comehere, googled, found it and said
, okay, low cost, we packed apicnic lunch.
So we just actually whatever wehad in the house, I didn't go
to the store and get anything.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Yeah, we just did kind of like snacky charcuterie
stuff, and we brought a bottleof wine.
Shh, we don't say that in thepark, just kidding.
I don't know if we're allowedto have that.
Well, it happened andeverything's fine.
And then we hiked around andsaw all the nature and it was so
beautiful the nature and it wasso beautiful.
(05:49):
So there's so much benefit infinding those little things in
your town or a nearby town thatyou might not have seen or that
has popped up like this is yeaha fairly new park that we have
not been to yet there's alsolike at the beginning they had a
little qr code where it haslike this whole meditation thing
where you can follow differentparts in the park and do a
meditation.
(06:09):
The other thing that we didjust on our own is we decided to
do some forest bathing, whichis also Shinrin-yoku, which is
Chinese for forest bathing, andwhat it is is you just get in
the grass and you feel the grassand you kind of ground yourself
(06:29):
with nature and it's verypeaceful, right?
I mean, we did that and we werelistening to the birds and the
little fish snapping in thewater and everything, and there
were so many dragonflies, we sawso many turtles.
Yeah, we did.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Finally, find all the turtles.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
So it was just so peaceful to connect with nature
today, and I think we wouldchallenge all of you guys to go
out and find somebody.
This is a day trip.
It doesn't have to be far away,right, right?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
And we've been here for several hours.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
We have been here for several hours and just catching
up and walking out and about.
We've seen so much nature todayand it's so peaceful and I
definitely feel happier.
And I think that there is.
I think we sometimes don't taketime for ourselves, and I think
(07:25):
it is very we.
We continue to talk about howit's good to fill your cup up,
refill your cup.
You know, give, give back somegrounding and some me time,
right, right, um, so I, I'mproud of us that we did that
today.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Yeah, how do you feel , oh, I've had an amazing day
finding something new that wehaven't already seen in our
neighborhood.
I mean, I call our town, likeour city, exploring not far, and
just a reminder that you don'tknow your backyard as well as
you think you do, right?
Or even if you have, it's beenhow long we should?
(08:04):
Probably you know what.
Maybe we should make this aseries where we go back and
visit all the parks that we didwhen our kids were little,
because our kids are older nowand we used to go to the parks
all the time we made a comment,we're like how, how did we never
come here with the moms groupor the moms club with the
playgroup?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
and we're like this couldn't have existed back then
and come to find out it didn't.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Yeah, our kids were 10 11 when this was built, so we
were they were off doing their.
We weren't doing play groups,yeah, so maybe we should go back
and revisit and see what'schanged, because that's
something else you can do inyour area.
If, especially if you've beensomewhere for a long time or,
like we are getting in theirempty nester phase, yeah, go
back and visit the things youdid 10, 15 years ago and see
(08:45):
what's changed, see what's inits place, because some things
have been removed, yeah, um, sothat would be something I would
recommend doing and maybe that'ssomething we should, because we
did explore a lot.
We took our kids a lot ofplaces in our town.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
We did especially because usually they were free
or cheap well, and this place isbeautiful and free and has a
lot of different.
There's what we didn't mentionbecause, like Cheryl said, we're
practically empty nesters.
They had two beautiful bigplaygrounds.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
They had big playgrounds, picnicking area.
There's shelters.
We're sitting in front of ashelter right now.
Everything is so clean.
I do not see trash anywhere.
Their bathrooms were so cleanthey do not see trash anywhere.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Their bathrooms were so clean.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
They had the diaper changing station.
Everything around here is sospectacularly clean.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Yep and just the area , like the grass, being able to
sit on the grass and there wasrangers patrolling.
So from a safety standpoint, wesaw several, For as large as
this was.
How many times did we seerangers?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Not only the sheriff's pickup truck, but also
the golf cart with the guymonitoring around too while we
were eating.
So very safe, definitely.
I would highly recommend thispark.
It is so cool here.
I would highly recommend thispark.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
It is so cool here so I'd want to know like what
little gems you guys have thatyou might have forgotten about
or might be new.
And if you're looking on how tobe a tourist in your hometown
cause that's something we did asmilitary families and move
around when we were stationedsomewhere we had to see it first
as a tourist cause.
You don't know anything andsometimes you forget to do that.
Where you're from, you forgetto go and do all the things the
(10:29):
tourist people come and see yourarea for, or a visitor not
necessarily tourists, but youcan go um, follow your, follow
the local wrecks and park ontheir social medias, because
sometimes they'll have events oractivities that they have going
on.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
oh, this uh park also has a Frisbee golf course.
Oh yeah, so those of you thatlike to do Frisbee golf, there's
a hole I think, like nine or 18holes here.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Another great way to find out what's going on in your
area is Eventbrite, which Ialways forget about until we
find, or we have to get, ticketsto something that's on
Eventbrite and then you put inyour area or you put in a topic,
and it brings you back to allthe things that are going on in
your area, and a lot of thosecan be free.
(11:16):
Eventbrite doesn't necessarilymean you're paying for the
ticket, because it's just areservation form that some
people platform people use also.
So there's meetups, um, oh.
Meetup is another one, yeah,because that that's still pretty
active.
I know that was when we wereyounger um, and the other thing
is all trails.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
I use all trails and that actually shows some of
these hiking trails.
And the thing I love about alltrails is it will tell you how
many miles it is, if it's a oneway, like an in and out, or if
it's a loop trail, it will tellyou the difficulty level, and I
love that too, because you knowif you want to know whether it's
a loop trail, it will tell youthe difficulty level, and I love
that too, because you know ifyou want to know whether it's
easy, moderate or difficult whenyou're going into the trail.
(11:54):
So I highly recommend AllTrails.
I use it, I have the app.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
I had never heard of it before, so I was going to say
I was just going to bring it up.
But I'm glad to see that youknow something about it, because
I love apps, especially onesthat give you the information
about distance and things likethat, because you don't want to
get out there and get on a hikeand know that the terrain's not
great or the length, thedistance, and then get stuck.
(12:20):
Yeah, I have to come back, orthat it's not a loop.
Sometimes that's the thing Ilike loop things where I don't
have to navigate from point a topoint B and then get back to
point A.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Well and I doubt you can see this in it, but it'll
tell you like.
Well, you can just screenshotand show it in something.
It'll show you like.
It says it's easy.
It says the whole loop is 2.5miles.
It's really great.
It gives you a lot ofinformation.
It talks about elevation 91feet.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
You saw we were hiking up and down all over this
.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
There's well, considering that drop is like 70
feet down, that's crazy.
It's crazy, right, yeah, but Iwould highly recommend um this
park.
It was gorgeous.
I love that we committed to dothis, uh, this day trip.
Oh, one thing I didn't show you, which I don't even think I can
get to easily, is we, um, Ibusted out.
My aunt, marianne gave me thisreally cute little backpack that
(13:13):
has like a picnic.
It's like a picnic in backpackand it has the blankets, got all
the uh, cutlery, plates,napkins.
It's super cute.
We'll put a link to it so thatyou can check that out, because
that was so cool to have thatreally was so because I have the
.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
I was telling you I have a picnic basket, but that's
not really great to carry outwhen you're trying to backpack.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
It's light, but it has everything.
It even has a little cuttingboard and salt and pepper
shakers.
It's adorable, so I will post alink to that as well and, as
denise mentioned, the park didhave really good accessibility
features.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Um, the playgrounds did have accessible swings yes,
they did and parent-child swings, which I love.
They didn't have that when mykids were little and I think
that's an amazing thing.
The trails were pretty good.
Obviously, the adventure trailI'd say we went on is not
accessible, but there was atrail above it that was
(14:08):
accessible.
The terrain is rocky.
I wish there was moreinformation on accessibility and
I'm going to go back to theirwebsite and check it out,
because it's important thatanyone that needs accommodations
, that the type of terrain thatyou see at parks and trails, is
listed, because that makes adifference.
It did go from.
You could get to the fishingpier that was cemented and then
(14:31):
it's a gravelly kind of likewhat's that shell?
Speaker 2 (14:35):
rocky type thing gravel, right?
Speaker 1 (14:38):
um, yeah, it wasn't all gravel, because some of it
was that crushed rock, crush run, I think is what it was called.
Okay, something like that wouldbe was out there.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Um, so manual uh, wheelchairs beautiful out'm
putting my hands out the sunSorry.
Would have some challenges, so Iwish that information was out
there listed, but there'sdefinitely some parts are not
going to work, but there were alot that were great, correct,
(15:06):
yeah, so I would call this anaccessible park for sure.
I would call this an accessiblepark for sure, but it's been a
beautiful day it really has.
I've enjoyed hanging out withyou and talking and being one
with nature and doing a littlebit of meditation and thinking,
and definitely recommend awellness day, a nature day,
(15:31):
getting your steps in all thegood things, taking in the fresh
air, listening to all of thenature sounds.
You can't get that with justbeing not yet out in nature.
You know, right, it is quitemagical.
Um, just being out with nature,yeah touching grass.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
As the kids say, get out and touch, touch grass.
I touched grass today and itwas.
So.
We challenge you guys over thenext couple weeks, get out into
your, check out your local daytrip areas If it's a park, if
it's a hiking trail, or do youguys have those like free
museums?
The little I don't know if I'dcall it a museum, but like
(16:11):
nature centers, things like that.
The little I don't know if Icall it a museum, but like
nature centers, things like that.
We have some of those, like theGreat Creek Nature Center.
Yeah, we have places like thataround.
What do you have in your areathat you like to go to, or that
you used to go to, that youhaven't been to in a while?
When's the last time you wentto a park like this Today?
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Oh, I know Before today.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Yeah, it's been a hot minute, same.
I cannot think of the last timeI walked around the park and I
really want to make this part ofmy routine, like maybe not this
one because it's 30.
But maybe driving to differentones, I don't know, but making
it a part.
So we challenge you guys to go,plan a local day trip.
Or don't plan it, just get inthe car and go one day, just
(16:48):
when you need to get out.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
But I and go one day just when you need to get out,
but I will say just packing thatlittle uh charcuterie board or
the little lunchie, and justit's very inexpensive.
You know, we, we joke.
Um, I saw a meme the other dayon my feed that says it's a.
It costs about a hundreddollars an hour to go outside
like to go out.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
We pulled everything that was in our fridge to like,
and when I say don't plan, I'mlike we plan this in 48 hours
we're like let's get out, let'sgo.
We needed to get out of ourhouses, especially because we
work from home and sometimes weget caved in.
That's what it feels like.
It's just sticking, staying inour little bubbles, right.
So this was really nice and weplanned it.
And we really kind of plannedit this morning we said we're
(17:31):
going today.
And then this morning the techswere like I'm bringing this,
you're bringing this, this iswhatever we had in the fridge we
put together.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Yeah, but I'm very grateful that we did it.
And what a beautiful park andwhat a beautiful day.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
It just goes to show that a nice outing doesn't take
a lot out of you to get out andgo do it.
So go out there and explore,have an adventure, or go chill,
find some place to chill.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Yes, just enjoy where you are in your company, and I
think that'll do it for today.
Guys, be well, bye.
Hey guys.
So I don't know if you can hearthe birds chirping or the
loveliness that is all around us.
We are out in nature.
Today we decided to come out toRob Wallace Park, so it's a
park in our city, a local parkto us in Concord, or actually
we're in Midland, we're in alittle town next to our town, so
(00:40):
it's a beautiful park.
We've've never been here before.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Yeah, it was interesting because we needed to
get away for the day.
We just needed to get out Daytrip and we were looking for
somewhere to go and you found it.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
It's beautiful weather and it has hiking trails
and I was like let's just goget out and be with nature.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
So I say from you it was.
So I say how, like, for me,from you it was about 15 minutes
and for me it's maybe 20, 25,yeah, I would say so.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Yeah, maybe 25, 30, minutes absolutely is a hidden
gem.
This park is only about 10years old, but it is they.
They pretty much carved it outin the middle of the forest.
It's so like everything, andthen of a quarry yes, yeah, um,
tell them a little bit moreabout the quarry because we will
have video footage.
It was gorgeous down there.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
It's so beautiful yeah, I didn't know that it was
going to be here, but it wasinteresting.
So you go to the very back ofthe park.
It's a huge park but spaciousbathroom at the beginning,
bathroom in the middle of thedistance of it and then at the
very back of the park is thequarry and, as we're walking,
really nice.
Adventure trail is what Icalled it because it's some ups
(01:53):
and downs.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
yeah, it had some inclines for sure, and it's a
pretty narrow path.
So, although we'll get intothat later, this park is very
handicap accessible friendly,but this particular trail that
we were doing was not.
I mean, it's nice that they dohave the trail up above too.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Right.
So we were walking around thequarry and we saw signs that
said obviously don't go swimming.
But then it said don't let yourpets in there.
And we're like, why is that?
Because you can fish.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
I don't know if you can fish back, you could you
can't fish back there, and theyeven sell bait here.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Yeah, but they had that up front so I wasn't sure
if you could.
We didn't see fish back there,but so we were talking like
what's in the water?
Why can't you, why can't thedogs even get in there?
Then we kept walking around.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
There's a sign that says immediate drop off 70 feet
deep yeah, and what happened, Ithink, is they were mining back
in like the 1800s and they hit anatural spring, and then that's
what made this huge quarrywhich was very interesting, and
as we walked around we kind ofgot on a little bit higher
elevation and looking down youcan see where it drops off.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Yeah, that was really neat drop off.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Yeah, we're in finding nemo not the drop off.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
That's funny, but it was, it's.
It's beautiful.
This park is absolutelybeautiful, but it's important.
Let's talk about day trippingbefore we dive even deeper into
the park itself, becausesometimes, when you want to get
away, it's not all about packingthere.
You don't want to packeverything up, you don't want to
have to make reservations, youjust need to get out of your own
(03:32):
little bubble.
I agree, and the fact that thishas been here for 10 years and
it's 25 to 30 minutes from eachof us and we had not been here
is just.
It goes to show that there arestill things to discover in your
own hometown.
Absolutely, and this isabsolutely a hidden gem.
It's a nature I know it's likea nature have preserved.
(03:54):
Yeah, it is yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
And they make everything very eco-friendly.
They have habitats and stuffand even in the little um front
office that you go in they havesnakes and all different kinds
of wildlife around hissingcockroaches and all different
kinds of animals and they tellyou about the native species
around here, and we saw.
(04:16):
We saw, I guess, a crane oregret.
I'm going to have to do alittle research.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
See.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
I said heron is that heron.
Oh, maybe, maybe it could havebeen any of those.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
We are so many animals.
But yes, up front, at the veryentrance of the park, we're all
like the things are.
They had signs of types of fishthat would be in the water,
animals like the frogs.
They had a display of what kindof frogs would be around the
area.
So they're telling you?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
what was the wildlife ?
Speaker 1 (04:45):
they would have, which I thought was very
interesting.
I love those little things whenyou walk through and you can
see the signs, kind of likegoing to a zoo and reading all
the information.
Um then we found two amazingthings.
Okay, we keep jumping back today, tripping why that's
important?
We keep getting into thisamazing park we are in in love
with this park though?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Yes, I absolutely am.
I would highly recommend it.
Five stars, eight plus.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
But the most, I would say, beneficial thing about
on-the-wim day tripping thing iswe picked this what two days
ago?
Yeah, we just decided to comehere, googled, found it and said
, okay, low cost, we packed apicnic lunch.
So we just actually whatever wehad in the house, I didn't go
to the store and get anything.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Yeah, we just did kind of like snacky charcuterie
stuff, and we brought a bottleof wine.
Shh, we don't say that in thepark, just kidding.
I don't know if we're allowedto have that.
Well, it happened andeverything's fine.
And then we hiked around andsaw all the nature and it was so
beautiful the nature and it wasso beautiful.
(05:49):
So there's so much benefit infinding those little things in
your town or a nearby town thatyou might not have seen or that
has popped up like this is yeaha fairly new park that we have
not been to yet there's alsolike at the beginning they had a
little qr code where it haslike this whole meditation thing
where you can follow differentparts in the park and do a
meditation.
(06:09):
The other thing that we didjust on our own is we decided to
do some forest bathing, whichis also Shinrin-yoku, which is
Chinese for forest bathing, andwhat it is is you just get in
the grass and you feel the grassand you kind of ground yourself
(06:29):
with nature and it's verypeaceful, right?
I mean, we did that and we werelistening to the birds and the
little fish snapping in thewater and everything, and there
were so many dragonflies, we sawso many turtles.
Yeah, we did.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Finally, find all the turtles.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
So it was just so peaceful to connect with nature
today, and I think we wouldchallenge all of you guys to go
out and find somebody.
This is a day trip.
It doesn't have to be far away,right, right?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
And we've been here for several hours.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
We have been here for several hours and just catching
up and walking out and about.
We've seen so much nature todayand it's so peaceful and I
definitely feel happier.
And I think that there is.
I think we sometimes don't taketime for ourselves, and I think
(07:25):
it is very we.
We continue to talk about howit's good to fill your cup up,
refill your cup.
You know, give, give back somegrounding and some me time,
right, right, um, so I, I'mproud of us that we did that
today.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Yeah, how do you feel , oh, I've had an amazing day
finding something new that wehaven't already seen in our
neighborhood.
I mean, I call our town, likeour city, exploring not far, and
just a reminder that you don'tknow your backyard as well as
you think you do, right?
Or even if you have, it's beenhow long we should?
(08:04):
Probably you know what.
Maybe we should make this aseries where we go back and
visit all the parks that we didwhen our kids were little,
because our kids are older nowand we used to go to the parks
all the time we made a comment,we're like how, how did we never
come here with the moms groupor the moms club with the
playgroup?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
and we're like this couldn't have existed back then
and come to find out it didn't.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Yeah, our kids were 10 11 when this was built, so we
were they were off doing their.
We weren't doing play groups,yeah, so maybe we should go back
and revisit and see what'schanged, because that's
something else you can do inyour area.
If, especially if you've beensomewhere for a long time or,
like we are getting in theirempty nester phase, yeah, go
back and visit the things youdid 10, 15 years ago and see
(08:45):
what's changed, see what's inits place, because some things
have been removed, yeah, um, sothat would be something I would
recommend doing and maybe that'ssomething we should, because we
did explore a lot.
We took our kids a lot ofplaces in our town.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
We did especially because usually they were free
or cheap well, and this place isbeautiful and free and has a
lot of different.
There's what we didn't mentionbecause, like Cheryl said, we're
practically empty nesters.
They had two beautiful bigplaygrounds.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
They had big playgrounds, picnicking area.
There's shelters.
We're sitting in front of ashelter right now.
Everything is so clean.
I do not see trash anywhere.
Their bathrooms were so cleanthey do not see trash anywhere.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Their bathrooms were so clean.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
They had the diaper changing station.
Everything around here is sospectacularly clean.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Yep and just the area , like the grass, being able to
sit on the grass and there wasrangers patrolling.
So from a safety standpoint, wesaw several, For as large as
this was.
How many times did we seerangers?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Not only the sheriff's pickup truck, but also
the golf cart with the guymonitoring around too while we
were eating.
So very safe, definitely.
I would highly recommend thispark.
It is so cool here.
I would highly recommend thispark.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
It is so cool here so I'd want to know like what
little gems you guys have thatyou might have forgotten about
or might be new.
And if you're looking on how tobe a tourist in your hometown
cause that's something we did asmilitary families and move
around when we were stationedsomewhere we had to see it first
as a tourist cause.
You don't know anything andsometimes you forget to do that.
Where you're from, you forgetto go and do all the things the
(10:29):
tourist people come and see yourarea for, or a visitor not
necessarily tourists, but youcan go um, follow your, follow
the local wrecks and park ontheir social medias, because
sometimes they'll have events oractivities that they have going
on.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
oh, this uh park also has a Frisbee golf course.
Oh yeah, so those of you thatlike to do Frisbee golf, there's
a hole I think, like nine or 18holes here.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Another great way to find out what's going on in your
area is Eventbrite, which Ialways forget about until we
find, or we have to get, ticketsto something that's on
Eventbrite and then you put inyour area or you put in a topic,
and it brings you back to allthe things that are going on in
your area, and a lot of thosecan be free.
(11:16):
Eventbrite doesn't necessarilymean you're paying for the
ticket, because it's just areservation form that some
people platform people use also.
So there's meetups, um, oh.
Meetup is another one, yeah,because that that's still pretty
active.
I know that was when we wereyounger um, and the other thing
is all trails.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
I use all trails and that actually shows some of
these hiking trails.
And the thing I love about alltrails is it will tell you how
many miles it is, if it's a oneway, like an in and out, or if
it's a loop trail, it will tellyou the difficulty level, and I
love that too, because you knowif you want to know whether it's
a loop trail, it will tell youthe difficulty level, and I love
that too, because you know ifyou want to know whether it's
easy, moderate or difficult whenyou're going into the trail.
(11:54):
So I highly recommend AllTrails.
I use it, I have the app.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
I had never heard of it before, so I was going to say
I was just going to bring it up.
But I'm glad to see that youknow something about it, because
I love apps, especially onesthat give you the information
about distance and things likethat, because you don't want to
get out there and get on a hikeand know that the terrain's not
great or the length, thedistance, and then get stuck.
(12:20):
Yeah, I have to come back, orthat it's not a loop.
Sometimes that's the thing Ilike loop things where I don't
have to navigate from point a topoint B and then get back to
point A.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Well and I doubt you can see this in it, but it'll
tell you like.
Well, you can just screenshotand show it in something.
It'll show you like.
It says it's easy.
It says the whole loop is 2.5miles.
It's really great.
It gives you a lot ofinformation.
It talks about elevation 91feet.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
You saw we were hiking up and down all over this
.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
There's well, considering that drop is like 70
feet down, that's crazy.
It's crazy, right, yeah, but Iwould highly recommend um this
park.
It was gorgeous.
I love that we committed to dothis, uh, this day trip.
Oh, one thing I didn't show you, which I don't even think I can
get to easily, is we, um, Ibusted out.
My aunt, marianne gave me thisreally cute little backpack that
(13:13):
has like a picnic.
It's like a picnic in backpackand it has the blankets, got all
the uh, cutlery, plates,napkins.
It's super cute.
We'll put a link to it so thatyou can check that out, because
that was so cool to have thatreally was so because I have the
.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
I was telling you I have a picnic basket, but that's
not really great to carry outwhen you're trying to backpack.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
It's light, but it has everything.
It even has a little cuttingboard and salt and pepper
shakers.
It's adorable, so I will post alink to that as well and, as
denise mentioned, the park didhave really good accessibility
features.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Um, the playgrounds did have accessible swings yes,
they did and parent-child swings, which I love.
They didn't have that when mykids were little and I think
that's an amazing thing.
The trails were pretty good.
Obviously, the adventure trailI'd say we went on is not
accessible, but there was atrail above it that was
(14:08):
accessible.
The terrain is rocky.
I wish there was moreinformation on accessibility and
I'm going to go back to theirwebsite and check it out,
because it's important thatanyone that needs accommodations
, that the type of terrain thatyou see at parks and trails, is
listed, because that makes adifference.
It did go from.
You could get to the fishingpier that was cemented and then
(14:31):
it's a gravelly kind of likewhat's that shell?
Speaker 2 (14:35):
rocky type thing gravel, right?
Speaker 1 (14:38):
um, yeah, it wasn't all gravel, because some of it
was that crushed rock, crush run, I think is what it was called.
Okay, something like that wouldbe was out there.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Um, so manual uh, wheelchairs beautiful out'm
putting my hands out the sunSorry.
Would have some challenges, so Iwish that information was out
there listed, but there'sdefinitely some parts are not
going to work, but there were alot that were great, correct,
(15:06):
yeah, so I would call this anaccessible park for sure.
I would call this an accessiblepark for sure, but it's been a
beautiful day it really has.
I've enjoyed hanging out withyou and talking and being one
with nature and doing a littlebit of meditation and thinking,
and definitely recommend awellness day, a nature day,
(15:31):
getting your steps in all thegood things, taking in the fresh
air, listening to all of thenature sounds.
You can't get that with justbeing not yet out in nature.
You know, right, it is quitemagical.
Um, just being out with nature,yeah touching grass.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
As the kids say, get out and touch, touch grass.
I touched grass today and itwas.
So.
We challenge you guys over thenext couple weeks, get out into
your, check out your local daytrip areas If it's a park, if
it's a hiking trail, or do youguys have those like free
museums?
The little I don't know if I'dcall it a museum, but like
(16:11):
nature centers, things like that.
The little I don't know if Icall it a museum, but like
nature centers, things like that.
We have some of those, like theGreat Creek Nature Center.
Yeah, we have places like thataround.
What do you have in your areathat you like to go to, or that
you used to go to, that youhaven't been to in a while?
When's the last time you wentto a park like this Today?
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Oh, I know Before today.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Yeah, it's been a hot minute, same.
I cannot think of the last timeI walked around the park and I
really want to make this part ofmy routine, like maybe not this
one because it's 30.
But maybe driving to differentones, I don't know, but making
it a part.
So we challenge you guys to go,plan a local day trip.
Or don't plan it, just get inthe car and go one day, just
(16:48):
when you need to get out.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
But I and go one day just when you need to get out,
but I will say just packing thatlittle uh charcuterie board or
the little lunchie, and justit's very inexpensive.
You know, we, we joke.
Um, I saw a meme the other dayon my feed that says it's a.
It costs about a hundreddollars an hour to go outside
like to go out.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
We pulled everything that was in our fridge to like,
and when I say don't plan, I'mlike we plan this in 48 hours
we're like let's get out, let'sgo.
We needed to get out of ourhouses, especially because we
work from home and sometimes weget caved in.
That's what it feels like.
It's just sticking, staying inour little bubbles, right.
So this was really nice and weplanned it.
And we really kind of plannedit this morning we said we're
(17:31):
going today.
And then this morning the techswere like I'm bringing this,
you're bringing this, this iswhatever we had in the fridge we
put together.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Yeah, but I'm very grateful that we did it.
And what a beautiful park andwhat a beautiful day.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
It just goes to show that a nice outing doesn't take
a lot out of you to get out andgo do it.
So go out there and explore,have an adventure, or go chill,
find some place to chill.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Yes, just enjoy where you are in your company, and I
think that'll do it for today.
Guys, be well, bye.
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