Sep 17, 2012 | Bike/Ped Advocacy, Bike/Ped Count, City of Burien, Cycling, Cycling Resources, Featured, Walking
The Annual Bicycle and Pedestrian Count will be taken at locations throughout Washington State in nearly 40 jurisdictions, including Burien. Data collected from these counts will be used to monitor success in increasing bicycle and pedestrian travel as identified in...
Sep 6, 2012 | Cycling, Cycling Event, Featured, Health & Well-Being
The American Lung Association celebrates 30 years of cycling in Washington with its inaugural Ride Around the Sound bicycle ride on September 15 – a fantastic century ride around the scenic Puget Sound. There are 100, 88, 75 and 45 mile routes, plus a Family...
Sep 3, 2012 | Featured, Parks & Trails, Walk-n-Talk, Walking, Walking Event
The day couldn’t have been more perfect for an afternoon stroll through the neighborhoods: blue sky overhead, sunshine and just-right-cool air. Yesterday, on Sunday the 2nd, 10 of us met on the grassy knoll in Burien Town Square for the September Walk-n-Talk. We...
Aug 29, 2012 | Featured, Other Local Walks, Parks & Trails, Walk-n-Talk, Walking, Walking Event
Let’s walk Chelsea Park again! We walked and talked along this route 6 months ago at the beginning of March when it was chilly and heavy jackets were welcomed. (Read that story and see the huddled walkers here.) Since then, the weather has changed and we likely...
Aug 23, 2012 | Bike/Ped Advocacy, Cycling, Cycling Resources, Featured, Health & Well-Being, Walking
Pro Walk/Pro Bike® 2012: Pro Place is the leading international conference on walking, bicycling, and creating great communities through Placemaking. Register today to take advantage of the best rate and the conference’s more than 100 program sessions, mobile...
Aug 17, 2012 | Cycling, Cycling Event, Featured
Just in time for the cooler temperatures we’re supposed to see this Sunday, we will be doing what will likely be our last daytime* Bike SaFaRi (Safe Family Ride) of the year. We plan to re-ride last month’s route to North Seatac Park because we were so...
Aug 12, 2012 | Cycling, Cycling Event, Featured
Come get “creamed” for good causes! You haven’t laughed this hard or had this much fun in ages…really! It’s “good clean fun”, (except for the creamy mess left behind). The Pie Joust is basically a whipped cream splatter...
Aug 12, 2012 | Featured, Health & Well-Being, Other Local Walks, Walking, Walking Event
11th Annual WALK FOR THE WOMEN, September 29, 2012 Have fun, win prizes and do good. The walk is an easy two miles through the heart of Burien to benefit homeless women. Here’s the plan: 1. Pre-registration fee: $20. Day of walk fee: $25… 2. Registration starts at...
Jul 23, 2012 | Featured, Other Local Walks, Uncategorized, Walk-n-Talk, Walking, Walking Event
We’ve been walkin’ and talkin’ together for a year now. Wow… How very cool. Think back on the people you’ve met and the conversations you’ve had… the things you’ve seen because you were on foot instead of behind the wheel… Think of...
Jul 14, 2012 | Cycling, Cycling Event, Featured
WABI Burien’s Bike SaFaRi series continues this Sunday! Bike SaFaRis – “Safe Family Rides” – are monthly bike rides for young riders and parents, as well as those without children, that simply want to increase their cycling skills. There...
Jul 1, 2012 | Cycling, Cycling Event, Featured
Cyclists will race through downtown Burien on the morning of the Fourth of July. The 37th Annual Joe Matava Memorial Classic Criterium & WA State Juniors Criterium Championship will be held before the 88th Annual Independence Day Parade in Burien on Wednesday, the...
Jun 26, 2012 | Featured, Walk-n-Talk, Walking, Walking Event
Rain or shine, chilly or bright, we will not be kept from our Walk-n-Talk! If we waited for the weather to make up its mind, we could wait a while. So let’s walk on Sunday, July 1 for our TWELFTH monthly Walk-n-Talk! This will complete our first full year of...
Jun 13, 2012 | Cycling, Cycling Event, Featured
Cycle the WAVE (Women Against Violence Everywhere), is a sponsored, non-competitive, all-women’s cycling event, Sunday September 16th, 2012. It is a venue created for women of all ages and fitness levels to experience camaraderie, increase awareness of domestic...
Jun 13, 2012 | Cycling, Cycling Event, Featured
Take the family on a Father’s Day bike ride on the second Burien Bike SaFaRi of 2012, Sunday, June 17. The ride will follow a quiet, flat, 3.5 mile loop that connects Burien’s Town Square with several parks, community spaces, and schools to the north. A...
Jun 5, 2012 | Featured, Parks & Trails, Walk-n-Talk, Walking, Walking Event
On Sunday, June 3, a perfectly “June-uary” day, 35 people gathered in the southwest corner of Gregory Heights, ready for a Walk-n-Talk along the historic Indian Trail. Local Artist/Author/Historian, Pam Harper led the group from the upper trail head, down...
May 30, 2012 | Featured, Other Local Walks, Parks & Trails, Walk-n-Talk, Walking, Walking Event
One of Burien’s little gems is the “Indian Trail”. This wandering, varied trail winds high above the shoreline strip of SW 172nd St. – the “Sunrise Trail” – and then, from Three Tree Point northward, parallels Maplewild Ave....
May 29, 2012 | Featured, Health & Well-Being, Other Local Walks, Parks & Trails, Walking, Walking Event
What is National Trails Day® and Why Celebrate NTD? National Trails Day® is a celebration of trails that evolved from the report of President Ronald Reagan’s President’s Commission on Americans Outdoors. In 1987, the report recommended that all Americans...
May 20, 2012 | Cycling, Cycling Event, Featured
Photographer Michael Brunk, (nwlens.com), master image-maker for the B-Town Blog, took delivery of the new, two-wheeled blogmobile just in time for Burien Bike Day. He toted cameras around Town Square and on the WABI Bike SaFaRi, giving his new wheels a spin. All...
May 19, 2012 | Cycling, Cycling Event, Featured, Health & Well-Being
Friday, May 18, was the first Burien Bike Day, and it was a rolling success! Presented by WABI Burien, (our local Walk/Bike Organization), Burien Bike Day overlapped National Bike Day and Bike to Work Day, encouraging people to choose a bike for commuting, running...
May 13, 2012 | Cycling, Cycling Event, Featured
Friday May 18th is National Bike Day. Last year, over 20,000 people in the Seattle metro area took to the streets on bicycles, pedaling their way to work, school, and the store on Bike Day. For Bike Day this year, newly formed Walk/Bike Burien (WABI) is challenging...
May 7, 2012 | Cycling, Featured
How could a cool, rusty, old bike like this NOT catch the eye!? This old bike was just leaning against the fence near the street in one of Burien’s neighborhoods. Was it put there for “quaint decoration”? It reminds me of its now 72-year-old twin...
May 7, 2012 | Featured, Parks & Trails, Walk-n-Talk, Walking, Walking Event
The sun shone on the shoulders of 26 walkers (and 2 pooches) yesterday as they chatted their way fromBurien Town Square over to Mathison Park. We had English, Spanish and Japanese native speakers mixing and mingling along the way on our 10th monthly Walk-n-Talk....
May 5, 2012 | Cycling, Featured, Walking Event
In order to help you get ready for Burien Bike Day on Friday, May 18th and the warmer weather that we know is around the corner, WABI has teamed up with Bicycles West to offer a FREE Bicycling 101 Class for those who want to learn or review what they need to...
May 4, 2012 | Bike/Ped Advocacy, Cycling, Cycling Resources, Featured
Bravo to Burien’s Brooks Stanfield, our “WABI Burien” President. He and his family are featured in this GREAT VIDEO by Cascade Bike Club, talking about cycling and raising their kids on two wheels. Fabulous. Video direct...
May 3, 2012 | Featured, Parks & Trails, Walk-n-Talk, Walking, Walking Event
The last time we walked to Mathison Park was in Wintertime on the December 2011 Walk-n-Talk. Let’s check it out in the Springtime to see how it’s changed! This Sunday, May 6, we’ll meet at Burien Town Square at our usual 2:00. The 2.1 mile route...
Apr 30, 2012 | Cycling, Cycling Event, Featured, Health & Well-Being
WABI Burien’s Bike SaFaRis – “Safe Family Rides” – are monthly bike rides for young riders and parents, as well as those without children, that simply want to increase their cycling skills. There have been little ones riding in...
Apr 19, 2012 | Cycling, Featured
The snazzy Burien Bike Day Poster is complete and ready to post around town. If you’d like to print one of your very own, to hang in your store window, office or home, CLICK HERE (or on the image below) to download the 8.5 x 11″ size PDF.
Apr 16, 2012 | Featured, Health & Well-Being, Parks & Trails, Walking
Today, under sunny, blue skies, 34 foragers showed up at Seahurst Beach for the Urban Foraging Walk organized by Sustainable Burien. We browsed for edibles between the shore and the woods with master forager, Melany Vorass and hadn’t gone even two feet before...
Apr 15, 2012 | Featured, Health & Well-Being
On Saturday, April 28, from 10 a.m. – 1 p.m., the Y is celebrating ‘Healthy Kids Day®,’ a national initiative of the YMCA to improve the health and well-being of kids. More than 1,900 YMCA’s across the country are taking part in the celebration with free community...
Apr 12, 2012 | Cycling, Featured, Health & Well-Being
As the days start to warm (and dry) up, don’t you just want to get out on your bike and ride around the neighborhood? Maybe take your two wheels up to get groceries instead of hopping in the car? Grab family and friends and take a rolling stroll? Cycle up to the...
Apr 11, 2012 | Bike/Ped Advocacy, Cycling, Cycling Resources, Featured
Dear Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee (BPAC) and interested parties: The Puget Sound Regional Council (PSRC) needs your help to get this message to as many bicyclists as possible. Starting May 1st, PSRC is asking bicyclists to record all their bicycle trips...
Apr 5, 2012 | Art Walks, Featured, Walking
Burien Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services will be celebrating Art Education Month by showcasing Art by Highline School District Students in a Student Art Walk from 5 p.m. – 8 p.m. on Thursday, May 3. “Visit downtown Burien on Thursday, May 3rd, from 5 – 8pm to...
Apr 1, 2012 | Featured, Walk-n-Talk, Walking
We had said “rain or shine” and we had both! We huddled against the weather and waited to see if other walkers would show up. In all, six intrepid “April Fools” showed up with stormy skies to the south, bundled for April’s Walk-n-Talk...
Mar 28, 2012 | Featured, Parks & Trails, Uncategorized, Walk-n-Talk, Walking
No fooling, we may have the next Walk-n-Talk in the midst of April Showers. What a great time to test out the reliability of rain slickers and galoshes. (Hmm?) Sunday, April 1st, we’ll meet up on the grassy knoll at Burien Town Square for our 9th monthly...
Mar 19, 2012 | Cycling, Featured
“Bike to Work Day” is Friday, May 18. WABI Burien will be participating with local organizations in sponsoring “Bike to Work Day”, providing incentives and both tangible and rah-rah support of those that take off on two wheels to get themselves...
Mar 16, 2012 | Cycling, Featured
Out for a ride one sunny afternoon, I saw the Future Cyclists of Burien out on a string of two-wheelers.
Mar 16, 2012 | Featured, Walk-n-Talk, Walking
(Originally Posted March 4, 2012) Hey, it may have been a bit chilly, but it was dry! (We had much warmer weather for our walks on January 1 and February 5.) It’s the beginning of March and it was time to go for another Walk-n-Talk. We met up at Burien Town...
Mar 16, 2012 | Featured, Walk-n-Talk, Walking
(Originally Posted February 5, 2012) Today was the seventh, monthly Walk-n-Talk here in Burien; 38 people and 3 dogs came to join the stroll! Of the walkers, 1 person was visiting from Salt Lake City, a family came from Phinney Ridge and others routinely come from...
Mar 16, 2012 | Featured, Walk-n-Talk, Walking
(Originally Posted January 2, 2012) Forty-one people showed up under unusually warm, blue skies for the Walk-n-Talk on New Year’s Day! Wow! Rainier was out. It was like a springtime day as people gathered on Town Square’s grassy knoll, having come from...
Mar 16, 2012 | Featured, Walk-n-Talk, Walking
(Originally Posted October 2, 2011) We’re just a bunch of folks, of various ages and abilities and speeds, out for a nice walk together. We show up once a month, whomever wants to amble on two feet, and we go from here to there in Volksmarch fashion. Today we...
