Since the month of January is always busy at our Boston digital marketing agency and Boston SEO company (clients and prospective clients often want to kick off new initiatives and tactics with the new year; plus everyone’s re-energized after some time off), and since many are still in holiday mode today (many employers marked this as a holiday since New Year’s Day 2023 fell on a Sunday this year), I’m taking advantage of the slightly quieter day to post another in a series of posts about walking.
At least for the last 20 years or so, I’ve always kicked off the new year with a new year’s day walk or hike. My thinking has always been that it will bring good health luck/karma to the new year if I start the new year off with a walk. When I look back at my New Year’s Day walks/hikes, I have fond memories of a variety of family members and friends joining me, and of the different locations where we’ve walked. A number of New Year’s Day walks have taken place at Pond Meadow Park, which straddles the towns/cities of Braintree and Weymouth, Massachusetts.
Yesterday, a long-time friend of mine, as well as my husband, Jay, joined me for a walk at two locations — around the Quincy Quarries Reservation (despite currently living on the South Shore, and having lived here when I was in my 20’s, I don’t believe I ever visited the Quarries) and on the main road (Riccuiti Drive) leading from the Reservation up to Granite Links Golf Club. I so enjoyed seeing all the brightly spray-painted rocks at the Quarries, but just as much, all the groups of individuals enjoying visiting them. And, the motivation to complete the 3-mile round-trip trek to and from Granite Links (which requires a lot of what I call “hill work” in one direction) was the fabulous view of beautiful Boston that awaited.
While we were out, we also drove and stopped to visit a Massachusetts landmark my husband had been wanting to check out for a while, Granite Railway — one of the first railroads built and operated in the U.S., but also an inclined one.
Since I had already gone for a short walk in my own Braintree neighborhood (Braintree Highlands/South Braintree) prior to our Quincy walking, I was thrilled that New Year’s Day 2023 had been a two-walk day! If that doesn’t manifest good health for the new year, I’ll definitely be disappointed!
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