Exercise

Great town for walking. Great town for eating. And now the food truck capital of the world. 8.5 miles. 4 hours. 1,000 burned calories. Let's go.

Easy to find a great hike here. Seems like the entire coastline is preserved, maintained and public. And very, very beautiful. Two, three or four hours on the Cape Sebastian Trail. 1,200 - 1,800 calories burned. Four to seven miles; depends where you decide to turn around.

I celebrated National Parks Week a little early this year. I started in Zion National Park. Just before sunrise, on the banks of the Virgin River in southern Utah. Ended up on Angels Landing. It's a wonder you can actually get there. And it's wonderful when you do.

Maine's Acadia National Park has dozens of scenic trails with wonderful ocean, mountain, bay and island views. And that luscious lobster roll has less than a third of the calories you burned on your Way up and down Sargent Mountain.

From Observation Point in Zion National Park, you almost sense geological time. You see how a meandering river spent ten million years cutting through thousands of feet of sandstone and limestone. Carving the contours of massive geological features.

The Yellowstone hike that has it all. Cliffs and mountainsides. Meadows where you expect to see bison. Forests. Wide-open moonscapes with bubbling, steaming geothermal pots. Wildly colorful canyon walls. And the view from the bottom of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River. Right alongside the great rushing river.