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What activities do you remember enjoying when you were young? I don't mean the big things like a trip to Disney World. I'm thinking about the everyday fun stuff.

Before I started school (which was age six back then), we lived on a farm. I loved going for family walks in the woods. It gave our parents time to relax and talk while we kids ran ahead to explore interesting plants and flowers or a funny-shaped rock. There were plenty of rocks in Missouri.

The walks usually ended at a shallow creek with a rocky bluff on the other bank. To me it looked like a mountain. My older brother would cross th...