If you haven't noticed, there is a bicycle renaissance happening around the world....
The Downtown Lakeland Partnership celebrated Bike Night this past Friday. You know I was there…and so were a great deal of other bikers. What a great turnout. In the spirit of the event....
Tonight is the June edition of First Friday, the monthly Downtown Lakeland Partnership event designed to remind Lakelanders where to find Downtown. The theme this month is bikes - the pedal kind, not your Harley....
In addition to riding my cruiser in style and participating road bike races, I also enjoy getting off road and bonding with nature on my mountain bike. Since I’ve moved to Lakeland....
All the news around the Deepwater Horizon oil leak has me data hunting these days. ....
Over Easter weekend, I went out on a second Cycle Chic run. This time, I biked over to Red Door in Dixieland to get wine for the Easter feast I was planning....
This weekend, I took the cruiser out for its first Cycle Chic run. Cycle Chic is a movement out of Copenhagen that is becoming quite popular across the globe. People everywhere are hopping on vintage bikes and riding around cities in stylish outfits. The goal is to promote the slow movement cycling by choosing style over speed. There is even a Cycle Chic manifesto and I am embracing it.
One of the things I first noticed about Lake Hollingsworth was the bike lane. There is something about bike lanes that seems so European to me. I’ve been using the lane quite a bit lately for my road bike training. Recently, I learned that this bike lane around Lake Hollingsworth is part of the Lake-to-Lake bike trail .....
Today marks the debut of a new column on bicycling in Lakeland. Author Tammy Wright starts with a little background… I grew up in the Seventies on the outskirts of a very small North Carolina town. Living in a neighborhood without sidewalks meant bike riding was limited to the back yard and a small quiet [...]
Goodness Gracious. Whatever one thinks of the outcome of the CSX/High Speed Rail/Tri-Rail/Rail Authority/Sunrail monstrosity that finally romanced its way through Tallahassee last week, can we all agree on the general lameness of DOT’s supposed leaders? I’d long since given up on any expectation that Stephanie Kopelousos and her top staffers would actually provide public [...]
As I was driving home last night, I heard a WUSF report in which Sen. JD Alexander, R-Lake Wales, waxed patriotic about how it's our duty to support our troops by approving Sunrail. Yes, really. The idea is that the 3,000 daily riders of SunRail will help us wean ourselves from foreign oil, thus making it less likely that our soldiers will need to fight in the Middle East. I wish I could find a link because the actual statement, in his trembling voice, is moving. Given Alexander's obvious deep feeling for the common good of our state and soldiers and his solemn belief that the CSX/SunRail deal is so vital to both, I expect an announcement any day that he's divesting his vast personal business interests in this deal. See them detailed here. Of course, it's just a coincidence that the Winter Haven rail hub CSX will build as part of this deal with $23 million or so of your money will serve JD's personal business interests and those of his partners. With a deal this important to our future, this important to our troops, I'm sure that JD will want to remove any taint that might surround it. That's what a patriot does.
You may have seen that U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray Lahood supposedly said recently that Florida won't get high speed rail money unless the state senate agrees to CSX's blackmail payment, eerrr, Sunrail deal. I suspect that Lahood does not intimately know the politics and intricacies of the CSX freight realignment/Sunrail deal and is simply pushing for as many transit deals as possible across the country. But even if that's not true, and he's inarticulately but honestly pushing for CSX/Sunrail, there's a good way for the Orlando folks to get their act together and make it easier for the Florida Senate to support them.
Redbox now has a blue box, Blockbuster, for competition. I have used Redbox many times before, mainly because I was at a location where they had it (Wal-mart and CVS). Now Blockbuster has come out with their own box, so I tried it last night at my favorite local grocery store, Publix. Same concept as Redbox, just $1 a day rental BUT the movie has to be in by 7pm the next day before you are charged another dollar. I believe Redbox is 9pm before the next charge. There just happened to be a code on the machine that will not charge my credit card the 1 dollar. Would you like to know what it is? gsnx9x8 It is good till the end of November. I wonder how this new box will change the loyal in store customers Blockbuster already has? (P.S. The movie I rented was Confessions of a Shopaholic and it was worth it and if you see Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs in the theaters, be sure to see it in 3D. Mr. Man and I enjoyed it.)
Bio: Virgina born, Carolina raised, I'm a small town Southern girl with a case of wanderlust. Current obsessions include triathlon training, world travel, cooking, street style fashion blogs, and keeping up with my yellow lab, Buck. By day, I am a chemical engineer turned traveling sales rep for a large corporation. My job has taken me to many parts of the world and brought me to Florida in 2007. I decided to settle into Lakeland in 2008 and I've been in love with this city ever since then. I also write at Lakeland Cycle Chic, a photoblog promoting stylish and fun cycling on the streets of Lakeland, Florida.
