Survey: Are Your Adventures Self-Propelled?
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto 
on 09. 9.08
Image credit Trento
Warren raises a very good point in his post about how "there remains that eco-conundrum of how do we get ourselves from our mostly urban existence to those deserts, mountains, rivers, coasts and forests with their many lessons to learn."
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The last several years all of my vacations have been self propelled. I am an avid cyclist and do not see the point of driving someplace I can get to by bike, the only exception was a short trip to Chicago that didn't leave me time to bike there and back for which I took Amtrak. My latest was a cycle touring trip to a beautiful state park in my home state, i had been there many times before but always by car and could not believe all the wonderful little shops and sights I had missed traveling by car.
I would love to cycle but the price of having enough land to grow stuff is living 8 miles from town on a lethal 70mph road.