Nature Calls

Hiking

My husband and I are currently living with his very loving and supporting parents in Sulphur, awaiting orders to move to Goodfellow AFB in Texas! Since we've been here we have re-kindled our love for nature and being healthy. We both love being outdoors, but with the 100+ degree heat we plan our time outside carefully. We live five minutes from the Lake of the Arbuckles and twenty minutes away from the Chickasaw National Park. The park has numerous challenging hiking trails, a chilly creek that is perfect for swimming and a wonderful lake that features a 3-mile cemented running path around it. Every week we usually run 12 miles, hike 6 miles and bike 16 miles. With my in-laws and I on weight watchers, we've all been very conscious about what we eat and focused on everything having a nutritive purpose. This new love affair with mother nature makes us feel stronger, but also has given our minds a much needed reprieve. We've even inspired my in-laws to start bike riding again, which has led to all of us exercising together 2-3 times a week. Even though October can't come soon enough, it will be a little sad saying goodbye to the mountains, hiking trails and lakes!