Walking Walls, or how you can help a journey for peace!

My friend (and former awesome roommate), Kate, is raising funds to walk along physical, political walls to document the real, human divisions in the communities affected.  I'll let her explain:

Click here to help out, either monetarily or just to spread the word!

Fun fact: it was with Kate when I first started to blog.  We started a blog, for reasons I can't remember, while living together my Junior year at Carleton (http://shesrealfinemy409.blogspot.com/ if you're so inclined to read some ramblings of ours from 2009).

Reason #1 Why I Love Davis

*Note, the "#1" does not refer to the top reason why I love Davis; rather, it is the first post I've written on this topic.  And now for the reason:

I bike 3 miles to and from work every day.  For 2.5 of those, I don't have to leave a bike path- not even to cross a street.  There aren't words to describe how relaxing it is not to deal with cars and traffic and polluting and hop on my bike to propel myself somewhere.  And the best moment of all: reaching the top of the overpass and seeing all the people stuck in traffic on Interstate 80.