Wheels That Heal: A Bike Benefit for Liberty Kat – Sunday Jan 29th
January 10, 2012 – 10:01 am | No Comment

Events and activities to help Liberty Kat (aka Misty Green) are coming into focus.  She has staggering medical bills to contend with while she mends so a Facebook page has been established where you can …

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Northaven Trail Update
February 18, 2010 – 12:00 pm | One Comment
Northaven Trail Update

Meeting of the Minds
The Friends of Northaven Trail had their initial organizational meeting on the 9th of February.  I wanted to attend but prior family commitments conflicted, so I missed out.  Lee Kleinman is helping …

Bike To Work With Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn – StreetFilms.org
February 16, 2010 – 3:02 pm | One Comment
Bike To Work With Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn – StreetFilms.org

It’s not Dallas but it’s too cool to ignore.  Check out the amazing StreetFilms.org video shoot and article about Seattle Mayor, Mike McGinn, commuting to work on his Trek 700.  This was not a publicity …

Snowing in Dallas
February 14, 2010 – 11:51 pm | 3 Comments
Snowing in Dallas

Not Biking. Snowing.
 I’ve lived in Dallas virtually my entire life, and I have never seen anything like this snowstorm we had starting on Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010. The storm also resulted in the longest electricity …

Seen at the BFOC Valentine’s Day Ride
February 14, 2010 – 9:42 pm | 5 Comments
Seen at the BFOC Valentine’s Day Ride

It was overcast, it was cold.  At least it was dry.  A nice turn out for the Bike Friendly Oak Cliff Valentine’s Day ride, all things considered.   I wasn’t paying close attention to the route …

Seen at the Oak Cliff Mardi Gras Parade
February 10, 2010 – 7:26 pm | 2 Comments
Seen at the Oak Cliff Mardi Gras Parade

Trips to Oak Cliff are always a sentimental journey for me.  Both of my parents grew up there, in fact they met at the swimming pool at Lake Cliff park when my mother was a …

Staying Warm and Dry at the Kimbell Art Museum
February 8, 2010 – 10:51 pm | 2 Comments
Staying Warm and Dry at the Kimbell Art Museum

This article is photo intensive, for obvious reasons, and might take a while to load.  Click on each graphic for a larger photo.

Last summer my wife and I went to Fort Worth for a weekend …

BikeDFW’s Cottonwood Trail Update
February 6, 2010 – 10:17 am | 2 Comments
BikeDFW’s Cottonwood Trail Update

I love anything bike trail related so I have to mention Marc Mumby’s Cottonwood Trail update, “Navigating The High Five on a Bicycle“,  over at BikeDFW.  The article is well written, nicely formatted, it has …

The Monk Parakeets of White Rock Lake
February 5, 2010 – 9:46 pm | 8 Comments
The Monk Parakeets of White Rock Lake

White Rock Lake was originally developed as a source of drinking water for the City of Dallas in 1911. It was created by the damming of White Rock Creek. It was not the City’s first …

Blue Plate Special on the West Side Bike Path
February 4, 2010 – 5:07 pm | 2 Comments
Blue Plate Special on the West Side Bike Path

This is the first submission from our intrepid reporter-at-large in The Big Apple, Mr. W. The “West Side Bike Path” shown here is the amazingly beautiful path down the west side of the Island of Manhattan. The …

Happy Birthday Hubbard
February 4, 2010 – 1:56 am | 5 Comments
Happy Birthday Hubbard

Today is Hubbard’s birthday so I picked up a gift for him at my local wine and spirits store.  I say you can never go wrong buying someone a bottle of booze for most any …