The Katy Trail

About midway through the Spring semester, we discovered something that we really enjoy. The Katy Trail is a hiking/biking trail that runs through a good portion of the residential/small business districts just north of downtown Dallas. It runs along a power easement and has pedestrian/biking bridges over all of the cross-streets. We've found that we can access the north end of the trail by riding our bikes from our apartment through the neighborhood near us. Mockingbird Lane, a major thoroughfare between Love Field airport, SMU, and I-75 near downtown has been shut down through our neighborhood for construction, which has been awesome for us. Once on the trail, we can ride down to the Knox/Henderson shopping area and all the way down to the American Airlines Center downtown - all on a bike path! The trail's website is www.katytraildallas.org.

The weekend between my final exams (I'd taken two and still had three to go), we got up early on a Sunday morning and rode down to the Starbucks at Knox, where we sat for a couple hours and read (I studied negligence and proximate causation in Torts, for those of you who are interested). Here are some pics!

Here's us after biking to Starbucks. We enjoyed breakfast and coffee there:





Here are some pics of us on the trail:









Then we biked down to Victory Plaza near the American Airlines Center downtown. It was a Sunday morning, so not much was going on. One of the local news stations broadcasts from there.







And here's Steph momentarily visiting New Mexico from a friendly, local playground: