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Day 49 of My Car-Free Experiment – A Night Run To The Grocery

Today's picture: A freshly painted bike lane on my way home to Crescent Hill from Downtown.
It's 9 p.m. Wednesday. I'm throwing together a gigantic pot of white chili for the weekend. But lo and behold, halfway through the highly specialized process
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Nov 4, 09
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Day 47 of My Car-Free Experiment – Perfect Weather For Cycling

Today's picture: My workhorse is cleaned up and ready for winter weather. But first, let's enjoy the crisp autumn air.
If your bike is equipped with lots of lights, as mine is, riding in the chill of autumn mornings can be a whole lot of fun. This m
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Nov 2, 09
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Day 45 of My Car-Free Experiment — Looking Out For Land Mines

Today's picture: On my way to church, I passed more than a dozen hazardous utility caps like this one. While I take in the brilliant fall color in the canopy of maples along my route, I need to be aware that land mines are armed and ready to trip up
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Nov 1, 09
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Day 41 of My Car-Free Experiment – So, Why Do We Prefer Bikes?

Today's picture: Meet Gay Windsor, 82, from Old Louisville – today's "Invisible Bicyclist." She routinely rides her Murray bicycle to Greentree Mall, across the river, a couple of times a week. And she thinks nothing of cycling to Robben's Roost on S
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Oct 27, 09
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Day 36 of My Car-Free Experiment – Meet the Invisible Bicyclist

Today's Picture: Meet one of Louisville's "Invisible Bicyclists." Tyson Bauer rides his bike from the Highlands to Fifth and Main Streets. But you have to be awake – and not distracted by your cell phone, coffee, MP3 player, or cigarettes – to see hi
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Oct 23, 09
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Plastic wrapped bananas

The banana may well be the perfect food -- it even comes with its own handy, easy-to-remove, biodegradable packaging. But, come on, we wouldn't be were we were as a society if we knew how to leave well enough alone.
So no one should be surprised a
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Oct 20, 09
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Day 34 of My Car-Free Experiment – When Will Women Bike More?

Today's picture: Heather Floyd, a regular bicycle commuter, gets ready to ride from downtown to her home in the Highlands.
Susan B. Anthony once said the bicycle "has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world." In the 1890s the b
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Oct 19, 09
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Day 32 of My Car-Free Experiment – Made The News @ 11 on WHAS

Today's picture: A screen shot from the WHAS-11 News – Louisville man tries 'car-free' experiment, after one month has no regret
On Saturday morning WHAS TV reporter Kelsey Starks met me at George Rogers Clark Place to find out more about my Car-Fre
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Oct 18, 09
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Day 33 of My Car-Free Experiment – When Did Bike Geeks Get Chic?

On May 11, 2006, I scanned an Article in The Wall Street Journal that rocked my consciousness. "Commuting to work by bike has renewed appeal right now," it announced. "On top of health benefits – like offering a chance to exercise without taking extr
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Oct 18, 09
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