Anyone who’s been to Dallas is familiar with the car culture that defines movement in the city. While there is public transit, and a lot of folks do count on it, Dallas is not what most people would consider “walkable.”
But that didn’t stop Jeffrey McWhorter from lacing up his boots, grabbing his camera and hitting the road by foot last spring. McWhorter grew up in Dallas, and he said he was raised to love outdoor adventure.
“Ever since I was a kid, I sought out adventure in what I would call the in-between spaces of the city, often leading me to plan these slightly hair-brained, oddball urban adventures,” he said. “One day I was sitting at my computer looking at the map of the city limits of Dallas, which is kind of an odd shape, and I drew a line on Google Maps from the very tippy top to the very bottom, which was 28 miles, and thought, ‘I bet I could walk that in a day.’”…