Wonderful day. Watching huge, grey storm clouds roll over the Houston Metroplex all day while we basked in the sun along the shore, Jake and I had a blast rolling up the Texas coast. I did prove myself wrong, though: Freeport is about an hour further from Katy than Galveston is. But the kid enjoyed pointing out every damn (oops), I mean every cow between Katy and the coast. No fish, but also no sunburn, poisonous bites, or major avoidable injury. Only casualty was my 2 year old cell phone that I wanted to replace anyway. Just a bit of advice – saltwater ain’t good for electronics.

Well we’re off to the beach for the next 4 days. If y’all could hold off on posting anything until then, it would really help my catching up when I get back.

Way back on July 17, I posted this screed griping about funding for ‘Transportation Alternatives’ getting cut from this year’s appropriations bill. Five days later, Salon picks up the thread with this article.

Now, while I’m thrilled with anything which gets more people on bikes, I think the author got a couple of things wrong.