The Last (official) Unemployment Friday

The highly acclaimed and much-anticipated tradition of Unemployment Friday reached an important milestone yesterday - it's last official session. As of Monday, someone in this picture will be back to work full time and the numerous activities for people with free time and an appreciation for the outdoors will be over. Cause for celebration, naturally, but let's also acknowledge the fact that planning at least one solid outdoor exercise event each week was a pretty cool thing and the tradition will be missed.

Not wanting to waste a beautiful day and a favorite backdrop, it was back to the famed Ventura Beach Walk - an 8-mile loop that leaves San Buenaventura State Beach and winds down to the front entrance of the Emma Woods campgrounds. It is tough to beat this route between the scenery, the terrain and the safety as it is primarily secluded from traffic...not to mention that we always manage to have interesting debates and conversations!

The photo above shows Jax and I at the turnaround point, just as we hit the 4-mile mark. Note that we are appropriately sporting our 'winter' wardrobe of long sleeved shirts and longer pants - we know how to dress it up for the very diverse So Cal seasons! The 2nd half of the walk was spent anticipating the last two activities of our UF - lunch at In 'N Out and then dessert at Pinkberry. Not a bad finish to a very enjoyable 3 hours outside with the sea, salt and fresh air.

But who is going back to work? You will have to check back in the next day or two to find out the answer to that!