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The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) adopted its first-ever Statewide Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan in October, 2012. Its purpose was to establish a direction for improving biking and walking throughout Colorado. The Plan also provided performance measures that would gauge improvements as well as provide guidance for investment decisions. As the Plan began to be implemented, it was determined that the performance measures needed to focus...
4) Walking
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Walking is a lecture by Henry David Thoreau first delivered at the Concord Lyceum on April 23, 1851. It was written between 1851 and 1860, but parts were extracted from his earlier journals. Thoreau read the piece a total of ten times, more than any other of his lectures. "Walking" was first published as an essay in the Atlantic Monthly after his death in 1862. He considered it one of his seminal works, so much so, that he once wrote of the lecture,...
5) Walking
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Colorado Department of Transportation encourages residents to make bicycling and walking a part of their regular routine. From the Safe Routes to School Program to the Share the Road Campaign, you will find information and resources to help you learn more about safe bicycling and walking. You can also learn more about the various health and economic benefits of bicycling and walking, and find the resources you need to make your community more bike...
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After the death of his beloved wife, after the loss of his advertising business to his once-trusted partner, after bankruptcy forced him from his home, Alan Christoffersens daring cross-country journey-a walk across America, from Seattle to Key West, with only the pack on his back-has taught him lessons about love, forgiveness and, most of all, hope.Now Alan must again return west to face yet another crisis, one that threatens to upend his world just...
13) The big big sea
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A young girl and her mother take a nighttime walk to the sea, creating beautiful memories of a special experience.
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Alan Christoffersen's wife was thrown from a horse and paralyzed from the waist down, and in just a few weeks, died of complications. On her deathbed, Alan promised his wife he would live. Alan decided to set off on an extraordinary cross-country walk. Carrying only a backpack, he plans to walk from Seattle to Key West, the farthest destination on his map. Now nearly halfway through his trek, this book takes him from South Dakota to Memphis, Tennessee....