I’ve been on a mission, lately, to stop for every pedestrian I see trying to cross the road. It’s easy when I’m the only one around, but I’m a little more reluctant when there are cars behind me and I worry that: the car might not stop when I do …
You can take your home with you if it’s a car–why not if it’s a bike too? Check it out: it’s powered by a roof-mounted wind turbine, and there are solar panels to run the stove and hot water. And it has a kitchen, bed, and everything! I don’t know …
Oh, how I love the advent of farmers market season in Portland: Exploding bouquets of brilliant flowers, bike baskets full of produce, greens greens greens everywhere, all sorts of little kiddos with all manner of food smeared on their faces, live music–there is nothing about the farmer’s market that fails …
One of the top things people ask me when they learn I don’t have a car is “how do you carry (insert anything large here)??” Oddly enough, people usually settle on “groceries” as the biggest, most bulky load they can think of–which is funny to me, since with very few …
