Davis Outdoor Art

I am planning to keep posting pics of Davis outdoor art whenever I can. Here are some pictures from the UC Davis Vet Hospital in an art display in honor of companion animals

Funny Davis Signs #1

Going to start a new section here ... posting pictures of funny Davis
signs. This is one of my favorites.

MapMyRun for Davis is a nice way to find new places to explore in town

I meant to post this a while ago but was in over my head with other things.  I found this cool site while googling for Davis MAPS and thought I would share --MapMyRun.com | Find Runs and Running Routes in Davis, CA

It has a diversity of routes for biking, walking and running in and around town.

Lance Armstrong Coming to Davis for the Tour of California

Get ready Davis.  Not only will Davis host a stage of the Tour of California this year, but new reports are today confirming the rumors - Lance Armstrong will apparently race in the Tour of California for the Astana team.  See for example

• Kazakh cycling officials: Lance to ride for Astana
  
• Armstrong will start comeback in Australia
  

So Stage 2, February 15th, will be a big big Day for Davis.

Is your city walkable?

Just got an announcement from a friend of mine who has started a new campaign for trying to "raise America's Walk Score." They have launched a web site www.walkscore.com with walkability rankings of 2,508 neighborhoods in the largest 40 U.S. cities. If you go to the site and type in your address you can see how you score (Downtown Davis does really well). And if you support walkable communities they have a petition online to encourage Congress to support walking towns ...

Davis Hosting Stage 2 of the Tour of California 2009

Big big news for Davis. Stage 2 of the Tour of California in 2009 will start in Davis (after Stage 1 which starts and ends in Sacramento).

For more information see Velonews here.

Also see the SacBee story here.

• Stage 1, Saturday, Feb. 14 – Sacramento
• Stage 2, Sunday, Feb. 15 – Davis to Santa Rosa
• Stage 3, Monday, Feb. 16 – Sausalito to Santa Cruz
• Stage 4, Tuesday, Feb. 17 – San Jose to Modesto
• Stage 5, Wednesday, Feb. 18 – Merced to Clovis
• Stage 6, Thursday, Feb. 19 – Visalia to Paso Robles
• Stage 7, Friday, Feb. 20 – Solvang (individual time trial)
• Stage 8, Saturday, Feb. 21 – Santa Clarita to Pasadena
• Stage 9, Sunday, Feb. 22 – Rancho Bernardo to Escondido

Good sources for Air Quality Information for Davis

Just in case anyone needs it here are a couple of good sources for air quality information for Davis and the area

• Sacramento Air Quality from Spare The Air
  
• Davis Air Quality from AirNow.Gov

Hopefully the fires will stop sometime soon.