Corbin made it safely to the airport before 5 this morning and is now back on a plane headed to Boston and his husband. ❤️
And once I knew he was safely on his way, I had an unexpected thought:
I GET TO WALK.
This was my first Starbucks Carrot walk since July, and I was a little nervous. I wasn’t sure if three days a week of Jazzercise had been enough to maintain my walking stamina through the Arizona heat.
Turns out… I was fine. 😂
I walked 2.55 miles round trip, with a 17-minute Starbucks break for hot egg bites, coffee, pictures, and general carrot appreciation. I kept a pretty good pace, sang along with Spotify, danced my way down the sidewalk, and enjoyed every bit of the breeze.
Walk Receipts
And the wildlife apparently came out to celebrate my return:
🪿 Two separate flybys by about a dozen Canadian geese
🐦⬛ My regular crow/raven making a Starbucks appearance
🦜 The neighborhood lovebirds
🐉 Dragonflies
🐦 A hummingbird
🍟 A bird who figured out how to dip a stolen fry into sauce
🤠 Wild West Mustache Bob, doing well on his morning rounds
It was 87°, humid, and I was sweating like crazy—but I felt SO GOOD.
And that’s the part I didn’t expect when I started the Starbucks Carrot Method last September.
I thought the coffee was going to be the motivation.
Somehow, somewhere along the way, I fell in love with the walk itself.
I missed this.
So apparently the carrot survived summer. 🥕💜
Happy Sips Wednesday!
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