Jan 30, 2013 | Featured, Walk-n-Talk, Walking, Walking Event
Feeling cooped up during winter’s dark, gray days of rainfall? Get out for a walk! Have a nice chat with other local folks. Get some fresh air and chase the doldrums away. (And if you have your pedometer, come see how many steps you can log toward your daily...
Jan 6, 2013 | Featured, Health & Well-Being, Walk-n-Talk, Walking, Walking Event
Walkers poured in today to the first floor meeting room at the Burien Library/City Hall, for a brief talk followed by a 2.5 mile walk, January’s special “Walk-n-Talk-with-a-Doc.” In spite of an almost-assured downpour, 61 eager people gathered to...
Jan 4, 2013 | Featured, Health & Well-Being, Walking
by Maureen Hoffmann, WABI Burien President Small steps. That’s all it takes to start a walking program toward greater health and a sense of well-being. For just the cost of comfortable walking shoes and a little time, you can go for a walk, get the kinks out,...
Jan 2, 2013 | Art Walks, Bike/Ped Advocacy, Bike/Ped Count, City of Burien, Cycling, Cycling Event, Cycling Resources, Featured, Health & Well-Being, Other Local Walks, Parks & Trails, Walk-n-Talk, Walking, Walking Event
Our new year is starting out with some beautiful days to get out on two feet and two wheels! Blue skies, sunshine and brisk, fresh air. Time for a nice walk or a ride. Happy New Year to all the WABI-ists… all of you that are involved or interested in WABI Burien,...
Dec 26, 2012 | Featured, Health & Well-Being, Walk-n-Talk, Walking, Walking Event
January Special: Walk-n-Talk-with-a-Doc Do your New Year’s resolutions include goals like “lose weight”, “get in shape”, “exercise more”? Do you wonder how to begin? On Sunday, January 6, 2013, WABI Burien will help you start your year off right by offering a special...
Dec 12, 2012 | Bike/Ped Advocacy, Cycling, Cycling Resources, Featured
Help Improve Bicycling in the Puget Sound Region! The Puget Sound Regional Council, together with researchers from the University of Washington’s Department of Urban Design and Planning, are working to better understand how to plan for the needs of bicyclists. You can...
Dec 2, 2012 | Featured, Health & Well-Being, Walk-n-Talk, Walking, Walking Event
We got drenched! Five of us rain-slicker-clad walkers headed out from Burien Town Square, hunkered in a doorway, into the downpour, undaunted by the deluge. We took advantage of the awnings and overhangs as we walked along the south side of 152nd, and marveled at the...
Nov 28, 2012 | Featured, Health & Well-Being, Walk-n-Talk, Walking, Walking Event
Will we be walkin’ and talkin’ and singin’ in the rain? (Isn’t that what galoshes and bumbershoots are for?) Incredibly, every Walk-n-Talk for the last 16 months, we’ve had dry weather. (Except that on one walk day it started drizzly and...
Oct 30, 2012 | Featured, Walk-n-Talk, Walking, Walking Event
November’s Walk-n-Talk will be a “special edition” collaboration between WABI and the Burien Library. We’ll meet in the main lobby of the library at 2:00 (NOT Town Square’s grassy knoll) and enjoy perusing the walking resources gathered...
Oct 3, 2012 | Featured, Other Local Walks, Walking, Walking Event
Burien, October 3, 2012 – The morning air was crisp, the skies clear as over 100 folks from all walks of life gathered at Burien Town Square Park on Saturday, September 29 to raise funds – and awareness – for Hospitality House, a shelter for homeless women in our...
Oct 2, 2012 | Featured, Other Local Walks, Parks & Trails, Walk-n-Talk, Walking, Walking Event
ALERT: WE’VE CHANGED THE MEETUP PLACE FOR THE NORTH SEATAC PARK WALK-N-TALK! We will meet on the grassy slope near the restrooms above the large parking lot at the north end of the park. See the revised maps below. DIRECTIONS: Approach the park entrance by...
Sep 25, 2012 | Bike/Ped Advocacy, Bike/Ped Count, City of Burien, Cycling, Cycling Event, Featured, Walking, Walking Event
Bike/Ped count day number one got started today with overcast skies, but ended with sunshine and bright blue overhead. “WABI-ist” counting volunteers showed up at their designated intersections around Burien for their two-hour shifts. A total of...
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...
