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Summary: adventures in exploring more of the nearby roads! This was also the first long walk that happened during daylight.
Today's walk was corner gyms, down to T.F.M., and then I was eyeballing a side road I hadn't been down because it looked like it would spit me out near an otherwise-inaccessible 'stop. Good features: road did indeed go that way, road was COVERED in pokemon spawns, I answered some lingering questions about the path along the creek's output, and I made it to the otherwise-inaccessible 'stop to catch not one but TWO Scyther.
Bad features: I didn't have to walk along No Shoulder The Murder-Road for very long but that short stretch was Y I K E S .
I'm talking so bad that I may very well never do it again, rare pokemon be damned.
+2 Scyther later (and oooh boy are they good ones, great IVs and monster CP, they can dunk on some of my legendaries already) I eeled back to safety and power-walked home because YET AGAIN I considered bringing a battery pack and YET AGAIN I went "naaaaah I won't be out that long" because I STILL HAVEN'T LEARNED.
I did see a fox maybe 3 meters away from me in someone's yard. It was hiding behind a shrub, except the shrub started with a thin branchless trunk and the bottom was still pretty sparse, so it wasn't exactly... hiding very well.... And even cooler, on my drive back from the store (Dinner Emergency Purchase: 2 zucchini, a jar of apple sauce & a cake) the local owl swooped down near the road where the streetlight illuminated it! Guessing it's the owl I've heard before in the nearby trees, also guessing it's a Great Horned based on having the stereotypical owl hoo.
I'm also baffled to report that all this walking is improving my stamina. I even jogged (very briefly! but still!) a few times, to hustle out of the way, and afterwards still felt fine. Actually truly fine. It's almost as if that whole "exercising regularly improves your capabilities" thing was right!
Walk: 6.5 km, 1hr 45min
Weather: clear, medium mud, surprisingly windy, ~2-7°C
Caught: Scyther (x2!)
Hatched: Togepi, Pichu
Kudos to the egg from *leans over to check* Austria! that coughed up my first Togepi. A day or two ago I was daydreaming about how much I'd love to get a fluffy floating triangle I mean Togekiss. There were two or three other hatches but none were noteworthy or exciting. And yes, I have been squandering limited incubators on my normal walking. For awhile I considered hoarding them for later but... honestly, I'm not playing to minmax my whatever, I playing for fun. So using them up as I please it is!Weather: clear, medium mud, surprisingly windy, ~2-7°C
Caught: Scyther (x2!)
Hatched: Togepi, Pichu
Today's walk was corner gyms, down to T.F.M., and then I was eyeballing a side road I hadn't been down because it looked like it would spit me out near an otherwise-inaccessible 'stop. Good features: road did indeed go that way, road was COVERED in pokemon spawns, I answered some lingering questions about the path along the creek's output, and I made it to the otherwise-inaccessible 'stop to catch not one but TWO Scyther.
Bad features: I didn't have to walk along No Shoulder The Murder-Road for very long but that short stretch was Y I K E S .
I'm talking so bad that I may very well never do it again, rare pokemon be damned.
+2 Scyther later (and oooh boy are they good ones, great IVs and monster CP, they can dunk on some of my legendaries already) I eeled back to safety and power-walked home because YET AGAIN I considered bringing a battery pack and YET AGAIN I went "naaaaah I won't be out that long" because I STILL HAVEN'T LEARNED.
I did see a fox maybe 3 meters away from me in someone's yard. It was hiding behind a shrub, except the shrub started with a thin branchless trunk and the bottom was still pretty sparse, so it wasn't exactly... hiding very well.... And even cooler, on my drive back from the store (Dinner Emergency Purchase: 2 zucchini, a jar of apple sauce & a cake) the local owl swooped down near the road where the streetlight illuminated it! Guessing it's the owl I've heard before in the nearby trees, also guessing it's a Great Horned based on having the stereotypical owl hoo.
I'm also baffled to report that all this walking is improving my stamina. I even jogged (very briefly! but still!) a few times, to hustle out of the way, and afterwards still felt fine. Actually truly fine. It's almost as if that whole "exercising regularly improves your capabilities" thing was right!
