We Won!!!

Castle Rock, Colorado has been voted one of Family Circle's 10 Best Towns for Families.


And from Gene Brooks' blog, I calculated our homes "Walk Score". We lost (3 out of 100). Which is really funny because there are trails crisscrossing every seeming inch of our neighborhood and the weather is almost always perfect.

After I looked into the score a bit, I found these tell tale indicators of the calculator's bias:
1: "Walkability" is how close you are to destinations, not how attractive other walk encouraging factors (trails, views, climate, culture, etc) are.

2. These "destinations" are very healthy indeed:

• Grocery Store: We are encouraged to go to stroll to the health food mecca, Circle K
• Restaurants: Perhaps we could jog to Taco Bell for that new, organic, tofu taco
• Coffee Shops: And wash that down with a triple shot latte, loaded with sugar and whole milk.
• Bars: If coffee isn't you thing, jaunt next door and down a healthy shot of single malt Scotch.
• Movie Theaters: Of course! After all this healthy walking if we really need to sit for 2.5 hrs with a tub of butter popcorn, candy and coke.

I'm liking my community more every day. . .