As I mentioned in an earlier post, I wanted to create some additional Chicago Area Bike Trail Gift Items (for more trails), and I just completed the design of more items for two more trails.

The new gift items are for the Chicago Lakefront Trail  and the Busse Woods Trail. There are links at the bottom of these pages for the new items. I have also created a page to include all of the gift items in one place and that is the Bike Trail Gift Items page.

These designs are all from the Zazzle.com site and it is pretty easy to design your own items, but it does take a little time and you need the photos to begin with so I put these together for those who might be interested in these kinds of items and don’t have the time, tek experience or the photos. There are always people looking for a lot of unique things in the holiday season anyway.

I had planned on doing quite a few additional trails but unfortunately I have run into a little bit of a problem. The web pages that I did on many of my earlier trails I used still pictures that I created from a camcorder tapes so these photos are very low quality. 🙁 For example, the Elroy-Sparta trail, the I&M canal trail, the Palatine and Deer Grove Trails). The photo resolution is fine for the web pages but I do not want to try to use blown up version of these for the gift items due to the reduced resolution.

For some of the other trails, I just could not find the kind of high quality photos that I would like to use so I will be going back to many of these trails to try and get some better photos that really capture the feel of the each of the trails.

So many bike trails… So little time! (especially with the peak bike season ending here in the Chicago area).

Well, we’ll see how the gift items go for now and I know that I will be getting out to the bike trails asap for more photos!