We regarded them with awe and they regarded us as less than dirt, dirt being something you could bike over and thus had value.
Mr. Serota's company returned a decade later with a proposal to build an ecologically sensitive community where residents could bike or walk to jobs, shops and recreation.
But why stay in Dallas, Mr. Boulter figured, when he could "bike here all year long" and ease into retirement gracefully.
Dave Lerner, a musician, found the Brooklyn life getting claustrophobic and moved to West Saugerties, a placed that seemed different but part of a familiar universe, where there was music and culture but you could bike, hike and breathe.
Maybe it's a pipe dream, but here's the vision: an environmental center where 150,000 visitors a year could bike and hike through an area three times the size of Central Park.
"I figured if I could bike 3,000 miles across Australia, I could do anything," said Ms. Dodwell, the daughter of a New Jersey state trooper who grew up in Union City, N.J. "I've got bragging rights, which is not a bad thing if you are a woman of a certain age".
