Traveling

Although I am looking forward to my month away seeing family and friends, I am also anxious about my exercise and meditation routinue. Over these past months I began working out regularly again and to the point that I feel satisfied about my effort.

Now I face being away from my room with its weights, medicine ball, yoga mat, and jump rope. I will also be away from my running trails and meditation cushion. I find myself becoming anxious about whether I will have enough space to do my Nike Training Club workout or if it will be the same without the weights. Will I be able to continue to improve my strength and balance? What about meditating -- will I have a space and time to do that? Will my back be okay without a cushion? Where will I run? How will I know the distance? All things that I can figure out but that became so automatic here as to be effortless.

With the anxiety comes enjoyment over novelty. I thought I would share some sightings around exercise in unexpected places.

First sighting:

• Yoga room in San Francisco Airport! The room is after the security checkpoint in terminal two. I picked my head in -- it's about half the size of a regular studio, has mirrors on one wall, and straw/bamboo mat along the mirror. A women was sitting crosslegged inside and looking intently at her phone. The sign on the outside said no food/drink or mobile devices, so I inwardly "tsked tsked" and went on to find my gate.

More sightings to come . . .