It isn't always easy to transfer good habits from one venue to another.

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I have managed to maintain the hiking -- and the dieting -- since my return from Texas without much difficulty. I have walked an average of 5-6 miles a day without missing a single day, and my weight is down from 213 to 201 and should drop under 200 within the next few days.

I haven't been accomplishing much else, though. I have been home for three weeks and I have all but stopped my podcasts. I don't know if I'm not feeling the inspiration, or if I just haven't been putting enough effort into it.

Most of my morning hikes start in the first picture here -- at the top of the hill on Valderas Drive. It's where they also end, which means the last few hundred yards of my hike each day are the steepest climb of the entire hike.

I walk into Montrose and walk down Honolulu Avenue, past the shops and restaurants and on out Honolulu toward the freeway. On a normal day, I end up walking a little more than three miles out and a little more than three miles back.

It's a start.

I've just got to start taking my voice recorder and my little notebook along with me. I have a feeling there's inspiration here in California, just like there was in Texas.

I just need to look a little harde