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Nowtopia vs. Despair in Seattle

I had a great visit to Seattle for lots of reasons, but bicycling wasn’t really one of them. I cycled around quite a bit, but it’s an unfriendly place for cycling, even though I did see a fair number of folks bicycling. The hills and wide streets full of cars with no shoulder were pretty […]

Nowtopia in Milan

Been here since Thursday morning and today was the main day since I spoke publicly about Nowtopia today. It was a very fun day in spite of being rainy and gray. It started with going to meet with Zoe, Alex’s partner and mother of 6-year-old Selma (sooo charming!).

She took me to Casa Morigi, a […]

A Black Turtle Crossed My Path!

Yep, probably good luck too. I was pedaling through the Cape Cod National seashore’s charming paved bike way, first undulating through dunes and scrub forest and then into a deep, gorgeous beech forest, and suddenly we screeched to halt to avoid this noble resident:

Given my recent musings on the Tortoise and the Super […]