Subscribe to RSSPublisher’s Note Missy Martinette Hills November 2009
TO THE MAILBOX AND BACK
Sweetwater Drive is typical of a long windy Lake road, tree-covered and scenic along the waterfront. Almost every morning you can find walkers and joggers taking advantage of its “rolling hills work-out program,” most like the one you’ll find programmed into a Life Cycle or Treadmill. I call my daily jog routine on Sweetwater Drive my travel escape.
My morning jog provides time to reflect, contemplate and plan. It clears my head and replenishes the blood flow just as if on a beach in the Caribbean. And the bonus: it might even tighten the booty and calves. It’s easy; no fuss with checking in or paying for extra luggage. No need to fuel up or pack a bag. And honestly, when it comes time for a quick get-away, Sweetwater Drive is about all I have time for. Isn’t this how traveling first started, on foot?
L•O PROFILE is proud to bring you its annual Travel Issue. And for a little spice, L•O PROFILE has incorporated Destination Weddings and Honeymoon Getaways featuring couples getting married and moving to the next level in their relationship. And what better place than the Lake area where more than 1,200 destination weddings take place every year. It is an honor for the Lake to have couples coming to this beautiful place to join their lives.
Some people travel for work. L•O PROFILE Magazine is honored to have Shaun Hill, quarterback of the San Francisco 49ers, as its cover fea- ture. An inspirational young man whose primary residence is the Lake. Yet he travels to San Francisco for his job on the team.
Travel for whatever reason is an adventure whether by boat, car or plane, for a honeymoon, job or just a little exercise. No one knows what the adventure will bring from one minute to the next. Life’s adventures are undetermined and you are not the driver of your life travels. You can be a guide. You can make the plans. You can plan an outcome. But no one knows how it will result and how your adventure will end. I’ve calculated my Sweetwater Drive jog route at about two miles with the driveway marking the completion of the two-mile route. Not so! According to my Dad’s pedometer, and his determination to walk every day even when the cancer was killing him, he knew two miles and the driveway was short of two miles. “It’s to the mailboxes and back.” And so it is. So many times it would be easy to stop short at the driveway making it my finish line, but then that wouldn’t be accomplishing the goal. It would be cutting my adven- ture short. Since my Dad’s death I never stop my exercise short at the driveway. Even with cancer he went to the mailboxes and back.
So I say, in this unpredictable world, be careful in your everyday trav- els whether on the water, in the car to the grocery store, even walking on your “Sweetwater Drive.” Know that every minute is a guess, and don’t stop short of who you are, or from meeting your goals…“To the Mail boxes and back!” And enjoy your travel adventures every step of the way. Special note: A sincere thank you to all my friends who called or contacted me with their concern and support after the boating incident. I’m truly blessed to have so many great friends and someone watching over me.
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