The barriers to an active lifestyle...

Talk to anyone who's in shape and most often you'll hear that the road to a healthier lifestyle begins and ends with an active one.

With this in mind, on day one of my annual vacation, I recommended to my wife that we buy her a baseball glove and then head to a local park to throw the ball around - she agreed, but little did we know that most of that day's activity would come from walking into different stores trying to find her a baseball glove.

I guess, living in a somewhat remote area, we have to accept that the availability of certain products may prove to be, at times, frustrating. But honestly, not being able to purchase a baseball glove during the first week of August? Please! Luckily, in the fourth store we visited, we found one left-handed glove remaining for purchase and snapped it up.

Interestingly enough, though, had we wanted to purchase a hockey stick or ice skates, that wouldn't have been a problem in either of the four stores we visited.

Afterall, like I said, it is August.