In my imaginary yet actual walking for fitness journey to New Orleans - I have 1,305 miles to walk. I will break it down in smaller steps. My first goal is to the Denver Aquarium - which is 10.8 miles from me.

Today I walked 3696 steps so far today - my goal is to get up to 10,000 steps a day - which equates to 5 miles - I made about 1.7 miles today - a good first step - but not where I want to be and it is too late tonight to add more steps into my day.  

Goal achieved 1.7 ----  9.1 miles to my first goal marker 
1,304.1 miles to go

Other achievements - created a blog - mapped out the miles to New Orleans, and shared idea with others.  Celebrated with Dee that she shared the idea with me and others are now taking the idea and running with it!!  My boyfriend is going to walk to Mordor with his daughter - an amazing idea!!  

For the first leg of my journey it is the week before Valentines and I have so much to do to prepare - and I am not even close to being prepare - so walking is being replaced by doing - but I want to make sure that I am making a concerted effort so I have a solid start to do my trip.  I am beyond excited about actually GOING to New Orleans - that is the endgame for this particular leg of the journey - no time frame as of yet  - but I would love to visit all the places I find that I want to make as goals along the way.  

My first trip to the Aquarium I will actually go and enjoy and take pictures and post them here when my walking actually gets me there - and then I will set another goal and do the same - Ren Faire, Manitou Springs and Pueblo are on my list of stops and I would actually like to visit them when I achieve those distances and post pictures - I might visit as I have money - but I will post pictures.  Then I will map it out and see what places I would like to visit on the way and when I go down to New Orleans actually VISIT those places and take pictures and post them.  This is a journey - something exciting to motivate me and to make it exciting to really actually do - plus loose weight and make it amazing.

I am excited that Dee and Jason are doing this as well - it helps to have work out buddies <3 span="">

Off to valentines it up :D