And be careful with knives while you're cooking Thanksgiving dinner. In other words, don't be like me!
WARNING: Link leads to self-inflicted gore.
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Long Breakfast Ride
This morning's solo breakfast ride included an extensive off-road portion, a delicious breakfast, and a good deed.
I recently found Fort Worth Architecture's site, including a forum, and read a post about an abandoned rail spur not too far from my house. I decided to try to ride the spur and see what it is like.
I rode to the spot where Southwest Boulevard crosses the rail line and followed it north.
In the first section of the trail, it runs behind several back yards. The rails are gone but the road bed is still there and solid, even though it is overgrown with vegetation at places.
There is a large open area in there that would make a nice park.
The bridge that crosses Camp Bowie Boulevard is still usable, although there are too many exposed nails to actually ride a bike across it. If this were ever turned into a bike trail it would be easy to put a new deck on it though.
The next section is similar to the previous section, except that it runs between businesses and is not as overgrown.
After that there is a section where it was not really possible to follow the actual railroad bed. But it runs along the west edge of the Z Boaz municipal golf course and there are no fences to block access (on the south side there is a fence along the road, then it turns in and runs a short length, but then it just ends).
So I just rode along the edge of the golf course for most of it, and used the cart path for a good bit of it. At the north end I followed into the parking lot of a Fort Worth maintenance center that is behind Rick's Cabaret (a strip joint), then out through the Rick's parking lot.
A little north of the golf course the rail line crossed I-30. The bridge across the freeway is still there and in great shape. In fact there was fresh crushed stone on the bridge so it is being maintained. To get to that bridge, though, I had to cross the access roads (which had rail crossings when the line was active), four of them total, which carry high speed traffic.
North of the freeway the track ran just west of Ridgmar Mall. The railroad bed is prominent here; it is raised above grade level. It is easy to follow.
I crossed Route 183 at the traffic light at the west entrance to Ridgmar Mall.
From there, I picked up the trail up again behind Ridgmar Farmer's Market.
Following the rail line took me around the south end of Naval Air Station Fort Worth. There is a narrow stone trail here which I followed. As it got around the south end of the base and swung north, it got more and more rough; I almost went over the handlebars at one point. It looked like the trail ended so I jogged over toward Spur 341. (Looking at Google Maps, I don't think it ended, but it appeared that way when I was on the ground.) There is actually a barbed wire fence I had to get over to get to the Spur 341 right of way. No pictures of this; I didn't want any visits from base security.
From there to White Settlement Road, I rode on the shoulder of Spur 341. I used the White Settlement Road bridge to cross 341, then picked up the trail again. I went north on the rail path
...and it was pretty clear until I got to a creek.
The trail ended there for me because there was a sheer drop of at least 10 feet. The footings for the old rail bridge are still there. I could see the Lockheed plant from there; it was just maybe a quarter mile away.
For the return trip I followed the same path except I continued on the rail bed south of White Settlement Road.
Very passable, except that it is used as parking lot space for a private business just west of Grants Lane.
Continuing on, I got on Grants Lane (which is basically a two-way low speed frontage road for 55 mph Spur 341 which runs just east of Grants) until I got to Colton Drive and crossed 341 there. There was a break in the barbed wire fence here so I went across and picked up the path.
It wasn't on the same path I came in on; there are two paths that run parallel to each other, with a wet drainage area in between. This one was not the railroad bed, just a dirty clearing area at first, then a barely visible two-track path through the grass which, it turned out, was much easier to navigate than the path I followed originally. I encountered some pedestrians using this path to walk from the residential area west of Grants Lane to Ridgmar Mall.
The path comes together with the stone path right behind the Farmer's Market. I was hoping to grab some breakfast at the Farmer's Market but they open at 11 for lunch. I ended up getting cruising down Camp Bowie Boulevard looking for somewhere to eat and came upon Galligaskins Submarines on Camp Bowie with signs advertising breakfast burritos.
The breakfast menu:
At last- food!
This was the "small" burrito and it was packed. It was the kind of thing that once you pick it up, you can't put it down.
I thought $2.75 for a fresh made breakfast burrito was a pretty good price.
I continued west and started to follow I-30. I rode past Arlington Heights High School, then turned around when I spied an old Schwinn locked up to the railing.
It's hard to see in the picture but the chain guard said Schwinn Panther; I would guess it was from the 1970s. Since I had stopped I decided to take a few pictures of AHHS which is a classic old school building.
Since it now faces out toward I-30, the effect of Western Avenue, a stately medianed boulevard feeding into the front of the high school is lost. Now there is simply a pedestrian bridge over I-30.
That was enough for a breakfast ride, and I headed for home. But wait... I haven't gotten to the good deed part yet. This is Jim.
Jim is visiting daughter in Fort Worth from Iowa. He has a nice older Trek he brought with him to tour around Fort Worth. He had ridden the Trinity Trails but was attempting to loop back to his daughter's apartment on Bryant Irvin on the surface streets. Since the only map he had was a Trinity Trails map, it didn't serve well to help him navigate through the streets. I passed him and waved hi, and he waved back. I looked around and noticed that he was just kind of sitting there, not really riding, where the train trestle crosses Trail Lake near Granbury.
I pulled around and asked if he was lost and he replied, "Oh boy, am I!" So we rode Trail Lake southwest. After crossing Hulen we cut across Granbury to Granbury Cutoff and over toward the southwest hospital district. When we got to where I could give him easy directions for getting back to Bryant Irvin Road, I left him and headed back home. I heard nothing of disoriented visitors or downed cyclists in the evening news, so I can only surmise he made it back okay.
I did almost 40 miles, but with the off-road portion it felt like more than that by the time I got home!
I recently found Fort Worth Architecture's site, including a forum, and read a post about an abandoned rail spur not too far from my house. I decided to try to ride the spur and see what it is like.
I rode to the spot where Southwest Boulevard crosses the rail line and followed it north.
In the first section of the trail, it runs behind several back yards. The rails are gone but the road bed is still there and solid, even though it is overgrown with vegetation at places.
There is a large open area in there that would make a nice park.
The bridge that crosses Camp Bowie Boulevard is still usable, although there are too many exposed nails to actually ride a bike across it. If this were ever turned into a bike trail it would be easy to put a new deck on it though.
The next section is similar to the previous section, except that it runs between businesses and is not as overgrown.
After that there is a section where it was not really possible to follow the actual railroad bed. But it runs along the west edge of the Z Boaz municipal golf course and there are no fences to block access (on the south side there is a fence along the road, then it turns in and runs a short length, but then it just ends).
So I just rode along the edge of the golf course for most of it, and used the cart path for a good bit of it. At the north end I followed into the parking lot of a Fort Worth maintenance center that is behind Rick's Cabaret (a strip joint), then out through the Rick's parking lot.
A little north of the golf course the rail line crossed I-30. The bridge across the freeway is still there and in great shape. In fact there was fresh crushed stone on the bridge so it is being maintained. To get to that bridge, though, I had to cross the access roads (which had rail crossings when the line was active), four of them total, which carry high speed traffic.
North of the freeway the track ran just west of Ridgmar Mall. The railroad bed is prominent here; it is raised above grade level. It is easy to follow.
I crossed Route 183 at the traffic light at the west entrance to Ridgmar Mall.
From there, I picked up the trail up again behind Ridgmar Farmer's Market.
Following the rail line took me around the south end of Naval Air Station Fort Worth. There is a narrow stone trail here which I followed. As it got around the south end of the base and swung north, it got more and more rough; I almost went over the handlebars at one point. It looked like the trail ended so I jogged over toward Spur 341. (Looking at Google Maps, I don't think it ended, but it appeared that way when I was on the ground.) There is actually a barbed wire fence I had to get over to get to the Spur 341 right of way. No pictures of this; I didn't want any visits from base security.
From there to White Settlement Road, I rode on the shoulder of Spur 341. I used the White Settlement Road bridge to cross 341, then picked up the trail again. I went north on the rail path
...and it was pretty clear until I got to a creek.
The trail ended there for me because there was a sheer drop of at least 10 feet. The footings for the old rail bridge are still there. I could see the Lockheed plant from there; it was just maybe a quarter mile away.
For the return trip I followed the same path except I continued on the rail bed south of White Settlement Road.
Very passable, except that it is used as parking lot space for a private business just west of Grants Lane.
Continuing on, I got on Grants Lane (which is basically a two-way low speed frontage road for 55 mph Spur 341 which runs just east of Grants) until I got to Colton Drive and crossed 341 there. There was a break in the barbed wire fence here so I went across and picked up the path.
It wasn't on the same path I came in on; there are two paths that run parallel to each other, with a wet drainage area in between. This one was not the railroad bed, just a dirty clearing area at first, then a barely visible two-track path through the grass which, it turned out, was much easier to navigate than the path I followed originally. I encountered some pedestrians using this path to walk from the residential area west of Grants Lane to Ridgmar Mall.
The path comes together with the stone path right behind the Farmer's Market. I was hoping to grab some breakfast at the Farmer's Market but they open at 11 for lunch. I ended up getting cruising down Camp Bowie Boulevard looking for somewhere to eat and came upon Galligaskins Submarines on Camp Bowie with signs advertising breakfast burritos.
The breakfast menu:
At last- food!
This was the "small" burrito and it was packed. It was the kind of thing that once you pick it up, you can't put it down.
I thought $2.75 for a fresh made breakfast burrito was a pretty good price.
I continued west and started to follow I-30. I rode past Arlington Heights High School, then turned around when I spied an old Schwinn locked up to the railing.
It's hard to see in the picture but the chain guard said Schwinn Panther; I would guess it was from the 1970s. Since I had stopped I decided to take a few pictures of AHHS which is a classic old school building.
Since it now faces out toward I-30, the effect of Western Avenue, a stately medianed boulevard feeding into the front of the high school is lost. Now there is simply a pedestrian bridge over I-30.
That was enough for a breakfast ride, and I headed for home. But wait... I haven't gotten to the good deed part yet. This is Jim.
Jim is visiting daughter in Fort Worth from Iowa. He has a nice older Trek he brought with him to tour around Fort Worth. He had ridden the Trinity Trails but was attempting to loop back to his daughter's apartment on Bryant Irvin on the surface streets. Since the only map he had was a Trinity Trails map, it didn't serve well to help him navigate through the streets. I passed him and waved hi, and he waved back. I looked around and noticed that he was just kind of sitting there, not really riding, where the train trestle crosses Trail Lake near Granbury.
I pulled around and asked if he was lost and he replied, "Oh boy, am I!" So we rode Trail Lake southwest. After crossing Hulen we cut across Granbury to Granbury Cutoff and over toward the southwest hospital district. When we got to where I could give him easy directions for getting back to Bryant Irvin Road, I left him and headed back home. I heard nothing of disoriented visitors or downed cyclists in the evening news, so I can only surmise he made it back okay.
I did almost 40 miles, but with the off-road portion it felt like more than that by the time I got home!
Monday, November 16, 2009
The Paris Coffee Shop
I get every other Friday off, and on the Fridays when I don't have other plans, I like to explore Fort Worth from the saddle of a bicycle. Sometimes I do a breakfast ride to somewhere I haven't been before. I searched through Fort Worth Hole in the Wall and noticed the entry for the Paris Coffee Shop at Magnolia and Hemphill. I thought, you know, I've never been there before! And off I went.
Part of the reason I like these rides is a chance to see Fort Worth up close and personal, from the quirky to the classic. For instance, Friday the 13th was apparently Miss Gonzalez's 40th birthday. I don't know Miss Gonzalez, but those who love her announced her birthday to the Colonial Country Club neighborhood.
Going a little further east, just past the zoo, is a cool building that houses the Forest Park Apartments in background with a little "gatehouse" in the foreground. There is a gatehouse on either side of Park Place Avenue on the west side of Forest Park Boulevard.
A short ride beyond that and my trusty Schwinn Varsity got me to the Paris Coffee Shop.
Fort Worth Hole in the Wall describes the shop thus: "Paris Coffee Shop has great food, a cool location, and a dingy cluttered interior that seems about right." This is an apt description. There is no pretense in this place. Just stuff to cook and serve food, and friendly people to do it. They don't have an ambiance, unless you count the pictures of famous people on the west wall.
What they have is good, basic food. I was in a waffle mood. The food got to me incredibly quickly.
My coffee cup was always full, and the price was right.
I can see how the place stays open... very good stuff.
But my ride is about more than breakfast. Like I said, I like to explore. A few blocks down Magnolia, there was some work going on at the old Gunn's Cleaners. I've admired this building for a while and hoped something good would go in there.
The guy on the left side of the picture explained to me that a brew pub will soon be in the building. It needed extensive renovation to repair the roof which was heavily damaged by a fire some years ago. The worker I talked to was restoring the windows on either side of the front door. He said that eventually the windows along the east wall,
will be replaced by similarly constructed windows (the originals were knocked out while fighting the fire). They were just getting ready to pour the new concrete floor the morning I was there.
You can see the new roof in this shot; I suspect the rafters will remain visible when the pub opens.
Cutting through the bike-friendly Fairmount neighborhood on my way home, I noticed the Arts Fifth Avenue building.
According to the sign, it should have been open when I was there, but it didn't seem like anyone was around. I hope they're still going. Their website seems to indicate they are.
This next picture looks kind of scenic, but I took it to show the construction zone on the riverfront Trinity River Trail. Normally a multi-use path (MUP) allows people to cross University Drive under the road bridge along the river. That path is currently closed while they reconstruct it to improve sight lines to make it safer.
The construction zone starts at the right side of the picture and goes all the way up to the University Drive bridge on the left side, and beyond, all the way to Rogers Road.
I'll end this post with a few pictures of my 1973 Schwinn Varsity.
Part of the reason I like these rides is a chance to see Fort Worth up close and personal, from the quirky to the classic. For instance, Friday the 13th was apparently Miss Gonzalez's 40th birthday. I don't know Miss Gonzalez, but those who love her announced her birthday to the Colonial Country Club neighborhood.
Going a little further east, just past the zoo, is a cool building that houses the Forest Park Apartments in background with a little "gatehouse" in the foreground. There is a gatehouse on either side of Park Place Avenue on the west side of Forest Park Boulevard.
A short ride beyond that and my trusty Schwinn Varsity got me to the Paris Coffee Shop.
Fort Worth Hole in the Wall describes the shop thus: "Paris Coffee Shop has great food, a cool location, and a dingy cluttered interior that seems about right." This is an apt description. There is no pretense in this place. Just stuff to cook and serve food, and friendly people to do it. They don't have an ambiance, unless you count the pictures of famous people on the west wall.
What they have is good, basic food. I was in a waffle mood. The food got to me incredibly quickly.
My coffee cup was always full, and the price was right.
I can see how the place stays open... very good stuff.
But my ride is about more than breakfast. Like I said, I like to explore. A few blocks down Magnolia, there was some work going on at the old Gunn's Cleaners. I've admired this building for a while and hoped something good would go in there.
The guy on the left side of the picture explained to me that a brew pub will soon be in the building. It needed extensive renovation to repair the roof which was heavily damaged by a fire some years ago. The worker I talked to was restoring the windows on either side of the front door. He said that eventually the windows along the east wall,
will be replaced by similarly constructed windows (the originals were knocked out while fighting the fire). They were just getting ready to pour the new concrete floor the morning I was there.
You can see the new roof in this shot; I suspect the rafters will remain visible when the pub opens.
Cutting through the bike-friendly Fairmount neighborhood on my way home, I noticed the Arts Fifth Avenue building.
According to the sign, it should have been open when I was there, but it didn't seem like anyone was around. I hope they're still going. Their website seems to indicate they are.
This next picture looks kind of scenic, but I took it to show the construction zone on the riverfront Trinity River Trail. Normally a multi-use path (MUP) allows people to cross University Drive under the road bridge along the river. That path is currently closed while they reconstruct it to improve sight lines to make it safer.
The construction zone starts at the right side of the picture and goes all the way up to the University Drive bridge on the left side, and beyond, all the way to Rogers Road.
I'll end this post with a few pictures of my 1973 Schwinn Varsity.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
A Trip To West Texas
This past weekend, we went to Lubbock to attend the wedding of a friend of the family. The groom is a longtime friend of my oldest son, who was one of the ushers at the wedding. In this pic you can see the back of Mrs. Doohickie in the blue dress, and my son in the center of the pic.
The wedding and reception were held at the Cap Rock Winery just south of Lubbock. Quite a nice place. And the wine was very good.
By the time the wedding got started it was getting dark out, so the only picture that my cell phone took that was worth a darn happened to be taken at the same moment someone else's flash went off.
The wedding itself was just charming- low key and high class. It featured a processional of Pachelbel's Canon played on guitar, a duet performance of The Prayer by the groom's brother and sister, and for the recessional, they played Queen's You're My Best Friend (a song that predates the bride and groom's births). Very personal and classy, I thought.
Okay, so that was the "official" trip. This was also our first trip to Lubbock. My wife sent me on a mission to find a Texas Tech pennant for her classroom (she puts up pennants to encourage her students to think about attending college). I drove up to the Texas Tech campus and found the pennant at the Varsity Book Store across from the campus.
There were also several other college-town type businesses, so we went back there for lunch. After looking around, we settled on Freebird World Burrito (which was kind of dumb, because we can get that here in Fort Worth). After lunch we got ice cream at The Arrogant Texan, an ice cream and sweets store a couple blocks down. I saw a first there:
Shine Bock flavored ice cream! (For those who don't know, Shiner Bock is a Texas beer.)
A few other tidbits from the trip- First, here is the view out our hotel window:
Trust me, the block wall was an improvement; we were next to a used tire store. ;- ) On the trip we passed Sweetwater, Texas. Sweetwater is the center of the Western Hemisphere's leading wind power generation region, at least according to Wikipedia.
These pictures don't even begin to capture the extent of this wind farm. You drive for several miles and see lots and lots and lots of wind turbines, all spinning to generate electricity. There are thousands of them. To get an idea of what you're looking at, each blade is longer than a semi trailer (I know this because they are a common site passing through Fort Worth). And the turbine at the top of each pole is about the size of a minivan. These things are massive. And like I said, they go on for miles.
Anyway, those are the highlights of our little trip. I hope you enjoyed them.
The wedding and reception were held at the Cap Rock Winery just south of Lubbock. Quite a nice place. And the wine was very good.
By the time the wedding got started it was getting dark out, so the only picture that my cell phone took that was worth a darn happened to be taken at the same moment someone else's flash went off.
The wedding itself was just charming- low key and high class. It featured a processional of Pachelbel's Canon played on guitar, a duet performance of The Prayer by the groom's brother and sister, and for the recessional, they played Queen's You're My Best Friend (a song that predates the bride and groom's births). Very personal and classy, I thought.
Okay, so that was the "official" trip. This was also our first trip to Lubbock. My wife sent me on a mission to find a Texas Tech pennant for her classroom (she puts up pennants to encourage her students to think about attending college). I drove up to the Texas Tech campus and found the pennant at the Varsity Book Store across from the campus.
There were also several other college-town type businesses, so we went back there for lunch. After looking around, we settled on Freebird World Burrito (which was kind of dumb, because we can get that here in Fort Worth). After lunch we got ice cream at The Arrogant Texan, an ice cream and sweets store a couple blocks down. I saw a first there:
Shine Bock flavored ice cream! (For those who don't know, Shiner Bock is a Texas beer.)
A few other tidbits from the trip- First, here is the view out our hotel window:
Trust me, the block wall was an improvement; we were next to a used tire store. ;- ) On the trip we passed Sweetwater, Texas. Sweetwater is the center of the Western Hemisphere's leading wind power generation region, at least according to Wikipedia.
These pictures don't even begin to capture the extent of this wind farm. You drive for several miles and see lots and lots and lots of wind turbines, all spinning to generate electricity. There are thousands of them. To get an idea of what you're looking at, each blade is longer than a semi trailer (I know this because they are a common site passing through Fort Worth). And the turbine at the top of each pole is about the size of a minivan. These things are massive. And like I said, they go on for miles.
Anyway, those are the highlights of our little trip. I hope you enjoyed them.
Monday, November 09, 2009
Trinity Trail Closed in Fort Worth
For those of you who ride the Trinity River Trail near University Drive in Fort Worth, be aware that the construction zone in that area has been enlarged and is no longer possible to use the trail to cross University Drive.
A friend of mine offered this alternative, which cuts through the University Village shopping center.
This detour goes around the closed section with a minimum of exposure to heavy car traffic. If heading toward downtown, exit the trail on Rogers, proceed north, then turn right on Collinsworth, a left on Wabash, and go into the shopping center. Turn right on the shopping center road that leads to the traffic light at University and Old University. Cross University at the light and follow Old University to the little traffic circle at its end, where there is access to get back onto the Trinity Trail.
This work was discussed on Fortworthology in September. At the the time I got the impression it would affect more of the trail than it has to date, with the trail closed between Rogers and University.
A friend of mine offered this alternative, which cuts through the University Village shopping center.
This detour goes around the closed section with a minimum of exposure to heavy car traffic. If heading toward downtown, exit the trail on Rogers, proceed north, then turn right on Collinsworth, a left on Wabash, and go into the shopping center. Turn right on the shopping center road that leads to the traffic light at University and Old University. Cross University at the light and follow Old University to the little traffic circle at its end, where there is access to get back onto the Trinity Trail.
This work was discussed on Fortworthology in September. At the the time I got the impression it would affect more of the trail than it has to date, with the trail closed between Rogers and University.
Sunday, October 18, 2009
BABBLE Ride, October 17
Yesterday, the newly formed and loosely associated group known as BABBLE had its first ride. BABBLE is Bicycle Authors, Bloggers, Boldfaced Liars and Exaggerators. It was formed by a number of bloggers who write about cycling in the Fort Worth and Dallas areas. We thought it would be cool to get together and take a little ride, have a little lunch, and make up a funny name for ourselves.
We met at the Texas & Pacific Rail Station Park & Ride lot at the south end of downtown Fort Worth. There are about a half dozen of us, so we weren't expecting much of a turnout. Word got out on some other local blogs and message boards, though, and we ended up with lots of unexpected riders- almost 20 of us!
Chris of Pondero blog ponders the collection of bikes.
This is Frankenbike, the creation of Steve A of DFW Point-to-Point. This bike is far uglier in person than than I would have believed from the pictures I've seen. ;-)
Chris's Homer Hilson, on the other hand, is gorgeous.
Mounting up!
This is Rose; her propulsion was provided by her dad, chimericslashes.
Artsy bike picture.
Another one.
Finally we begin.
A motley group.
First stop: Panther City Bicycles.
Refreshments available include Fort Worth-brewed Rahr beer on tap.
Onward we go.
Oops! That was a quick light!
Another stop for the BABBLE posse...
...at Colonel's Bicycles near TCU.
BABBLErs gawking around in Colonel's
Riding near Colonial Country Club.
Getting on the Trinity River Trail at Overton Creek.
We got off the river trail at Trinity Park.
Cutting through the industrial area that leads to...
...La Familia for lunch!
Wish you were here, R A N T W I C K!
The enchiladas were excellent!
A great time was had by all! BABBLE founders include Chandra (Green Commotion, bright yellow shirt), Steve A (DFW Point-to-Point, blue shirt), Myles (Rat Trap Press, red shirt), me- Paul H (Doohickie, next to Myles), then next to me Chris (Pondero) and Reed (ChipSeal). I regret to say I'm not too good with names, so several of our new friends will have to remain nameless for now. Maybe on the next ride I'll be better with names. I also regret that I missed the rest of the ride; I had to get home for another appointment and left the group after eating lunch. I took more pictures of the ride; you can see them here.
If you want to see what happened next, check out some these accounts of the ride:
DFW Point-to-Point
Rat Trap Press
Pondero
Fixed Dallas Twitter
Onespeed Dallas Twitter
fixedminusdicks Twitter Pics
Suburban Assault
We met at the Texas & Pacific Rail Station Park & Ride lot at the south end of downtown Fort Worth. There are about a half dozen of us, so we weren't expecting much of a turnout. Word got out on some other local blogs and message boards, though, and we ended up with lots of unexpected riders- almost 20 of us!
Chris of Pondero blog ponders the collection of bikes.
This is Frankenbike, the creation of Steve A of DFW Point-to-Point. This bike is far uglier in person than than I would have believed from the pictures I've seen. ;-)
Chris's Homer Hilson, on the other hand, is gorgeous.
Mounting up!
This is Rose; her propulsion was provided by her dad, chimericslashes.
Artsy bike picture.
Another one.
Finally we begin.
A motley group.
First stop: Panther City Bicycles.
Refreshments available include Fort Worth-brewed Rahr beer on tap.
Onward we go.
Oops! That was a quick light!
Another stop for the BABBLE posse...
...at Colonel's Bicycles near TCU.
BABBLErs gawking around in Colonel's
Riding near Colonial Country Club.
Getting on the Trinity River Trail at Overton Creek.
We got off the river trail at Trinity Park.
Cutting through the industrial area that leads to...
...La Familia for lunch!
Wish you were here, R A N T W I C K!
The enchiladas were excellent!
A great time was had by all! BABBLE founders include Chandra (Green Commotion, bright yellow shirt), Steve A (DFW Point-to-Point, blue shirt), Myles (Rat Trap Press, red shirt), me- Paul H (Doohickie, next to Myles), then next to me Chris (Pondero) and Reed (ChipSeal). I regret to say I'm not too good with names, so several of our new friends will have to remain nameless for now. Maybe on the next ride I'll be better with names. I also regret that I missed the rest of the ride; I had to get home for another appointment and left the group after eating lunch. I took more pictures of the ride; you can see them here.
If you want to see what happened next, check out some these accounts of the ride:
DFW Point-to-Point
Rat Trap Press
Pondero
Fixed Dallas Twitter
Onespeed Dallas Twitter
fixedminusdicks Twitter Pics
Suburban Assault
Monday, October 12, 2009
The Theme from Shaft
(Caution: slightly not-safe for work language)
...as played by the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain. Wow. What kind of encore could you follow that up with? Maybe... this:
...as played by the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain. Wow. What kind of encore could you follow that up with? Maybe... this:
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