The Great Escape: Walk This Way

Maybe your teens are holding a car wash at the high school Saturday. The grandparents volunteered to take the younger children to a movie Sunday afternoon. Your tweens take tap on Wednesday evening.  It’s your time. Take it.

Each week, we’ll tell you about one great idea to give you a much deserved break, and make your life a little easier, maybe a whole lot easier.

After a few starts and stops, and some hailstorms to write home about, spring is finally here. So this week’s Great Escape looks at another way you can get out, break your routine and rejuvenate outdoors in this nice weather. 

That’s just what the organizers of a new neighborhood walking group were thinking, too. Walk ‘N’ Talk Pinole formed in 2011, as an informal way of getting a few people together to get out and get moving. Its first walk drew 23 people!  The second walk had 27, and it has kept going since.

Members walk every other Saturday morning for a little over an hour per walk. The group got so popular, it now meets every Wednesday night as well. 

It meets at different spots on Saturdays and for simplicity but always meets at Pinole Valley High School parking lot for the Wednesday evening walks. There's no cost, it's a great way to meet new people, to find walking partners, to get some exercise and to discover new places in Pinole.  Fliers are up around Pinole and everyone is welcome. 

Upcoming Wednesday Walks are April 13, 20 and 27.

The next Saturday walk is at Fernandez Park on April 30, for the Flippers to Feet 5 K Walk/Run.

Its Facebook page is Walk N Talk Pinole.

Website: http://www.WalkNTalk.pinolearts.com

Have a “great escape” secret of your own you’re willing to share with our readers? Tell us about it by e-mailing the author above, or putting it in the comments at the end of this article. If we pick your idea to feature, we’ll give you a shout-out in the next “Great Escape!”