Interestingly, being out has not been as challenging for me as I thought it would be because of how I bookended my days.  All summer long I have been incredibly consistent in two things...

Sometimes the work is in the consistent tiny efforts -- that even those tiny little efforts build up into something more.

Your path to quiet may be meditation. It could be painting.  It could be dancing.  Your path to quiet could be sitting under a tree, or by a river, or the ocean.  It might be cooking or cleaning or folding the laundry.  Your path to quiet is your own.