Walking the Talk! (26)

Serious Issues, Walkability and Bikeability 1 Minute

(26th in a series of posts on Walkability and Bikeability)

Such a beautiful day! Did you do some exercise? Were you walkers and bikers taking advantage?

The goal for lots of Gadfly followers is a Bethlehem walker- and biker-friendly.

We can’t just talk the talk. That goal can’t just be political gabble.

So take a look at this — June 12, 3:30 PM, Broad and New. Party time!

Donchez walk

And how many of you are Tail on the Trailers? 165 miles in 6 months. May 1 – Oct 31. About a mile a day. About 30 miles/month. Can be done anywhere.

Gadfly plans to double the challenge — 330 miles. But he lost two weeks in May because of a couple family obligations. So he’s behind now. Only 42 miles instead of about 60 in May.

Tail 2

“Who goes with me?” as the great Walt Whitman ended one of his most powerful poems.

Published by The Bethlehem Gadfly

Edward J. Gallagher, Bethlehem immigrant, retired, nearly 50 years as Professor of American Literature at Lehigh University, known as "Dr. G" and "Conan the Grammarian" to students, whose virtual world avatar "EdwardScholarhands" stares at you here, has reinvented himself as the Bethlehem Gadfly.

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One thought on “Walking the Talk! (26)”

  1. I’m in.

    I used to do Tail on the Trail, but I dropped out of that when the tracking site started asking me to record time & distance for each segment. Do they still ask us to do what the computer could do so easily? (For the summer challenge, I was biking too, so my goal was a total of 165/mo.)

    Even though I’m not doing that program any more, I think it would be a rare day when I don’t walk at least 3K, often 6–7K. In good weather, I bike for transportation whenever I can, but I don’t keep track of distance.

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