By Peggy Sue McRae

Journal contributor

We had the “buddy system” when we were kids. Summers spent at our grandparents’ beach cabin, we (my four sisters and I) were mostly free to run around the beach and woods “free range” as long as we had our buddy with us. Now in our 70s, my sister Sally and I have buddied up again, or as she calls it, we are “account-a-buddies.” We touch base with short emails every night.

A few years ago, I started doing virtual treks with “The Conqueror Challenge.” This company provides virtual treks as a fun way to track and inspire physical exercise. For $32.99 a trek, you can log onto an app and at the end of each day track your step count (or convert your chosen form of exercise into steps). You can then see where you would be on a map and you can toggle the m

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