On the Road Again...

 By Crabby McSlackerAre you ready for a blog post chock full of healthy travel tips, amusing anecdotes, surprising discoveries, inspiring advice, and breathtaking photos of scenery and wildlife?Oops, sorry! You probably want to type a different URL up there in your search bar. Did you not realize this was Cranky Fitness?As it happens, I've done some decent "on the road" posts before, both of the "holy crap look how pretty this is" variety, as well as the "here's how to exercise at gas stations even if people think you're a psycho" kind. But we've only got a brief layover on this, our eleven thousandth cross-country schlep, and there's laundry to do and email to catch up on and other miscellaneous shit to take care of while we're not rolling down the road at 75 miles an hour.But for today, I do have at least a few hiking pictures and one Important Cross Country Road Trip Lesson Learned.The Lesson Learned? Take at Least One Day to Do Something Awesome.For us, that was a totally gratuitous stop in Sedona, Arizona for a day of hiking.It wasn't too far a detour, though it wasn't by any means "on the way." We'd been before, we could have easily skipped it and been more practical.But f. that. We wanted something to make the thousands and thousands of miles feel more like an adventure and less like a long-haul truckers' day job.The hike we ended up on wasn't our first choice. We underestimated how popular the trails (and thus the parking lots) might be, and didn't get out early ...
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