Night Walking

Since we moved to Leisure World full-time in 2019 we have spent a lot of time every day outside in the dark.  In the early morning.  Before the sun even rises in the east.  Mostly all by ourselves, before the world "wakes up."

We have been nightwalking in Leisure World for 5+ years now.....only interrupted by a couple of years of heavy night cycling.  When we first moved to Leisure World we did night swimming for an hour and then night walking for an hour+.

In 2023 we cycled 5000 miles, and the big majority of that was in Leisure World, in the dark.  So we didn't do much nightwalking that year.

Being out in Leisure World, in the dark of the early morning, has more or less defined our living in this wonderful place.

Besides being beautiful almost to the point of being spiritual, these night-time walks and other activities in the dark have produced health benefits to us that we can only imagine. 

Our walks are out on golf courses.  We have two 18-hole golf courses in LW.  So we can be out in the open every day, where it is so very quiet and peaceful.  

LW has several ponds on these golf courses, and many of them are lit up with lighted fountains at night.  Simply beautiful.  

It is so quiet, and peaceful.  And, oddly, we almost never run into anyone else doing these walks.  A few people walk on the streets in the dark at this time of the morning, but for reasons we can't explain, the golf courses are virtually empty.  We can't figure this out.

And, importantly, we engage in these peaceful and spiritual walks together.