One of the ironic aspects of bike racing is that you spend a lot of time in the car.
When carpooling to races with my teammate Tris, we invariably end up talking about how we don’t like driving, and how we’d like to be able to walk and/or ride to more places. The urban sprawl that [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘culture’
July 7, 2009
Shrinking the sprawl
June 26, 2009
You say Ver-sales
Before leaving for the Ohio time trial championship in Versailles, my son informed me of the correct way to pronounce where I would be going.
“It’s Ver-sales”, he said. “They don’t like it when you say it like the French city.” As a college student at a small Ohio liberal arts school, he now apparently [...]
May 31, 2009
Nobody walks in Florida
Go for a walk in Florida and you risk being stopped by the police. That was the experience of Viktor, my friend and colleague from Germany.
We were at a work conference in Florida back in February. The conference was about 40 miles north of Orlando, in a pleasant area covered with orange groves and lakes. [...]
