Walking for health, stress-incontinence, risk of arrest and my fanny-pack

I've posted in several threads about my COPD and walking for exercise. I can't reverse the lung damage itself, but I've been amazed at how my lung capacity or lung function has improved. I've been able to get my blood oxygen to stay at 98 with "full" -- not "labored" -- breathing, and 96 is pretty standard. Blood pressure is often down to 122/78 +/- (as low as 117 !!)

I had found this public park with a level path around its circumference of exactly 1/3 mile. So three circuits is 1 mile and six is 2 miles. Since beginning of March I've pretty much walked 2 to 2.5 miles daily.

So I decided to venture forth. My town -- now a city of 323,000 -- still preserves an historic avenue with a center boulevard. Back in the 1970s, looking in store windows in the nation's capital around M Street and Wisconsin Ave, they featured an orange-crate filled with ceramic ducks, the crate enameled with its original label showing a Model T Ford ambling down Victoria Avenue. The city had...

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