Monthly Archives: April 2011

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“Ulysses Way”

The proof in picture of all that can be transported by bicycle! This year, the Armory Show, a week-long art exhibition held in March in New York City, included a bicycle.  A dishwasher, a dryer, a chair, a bucket, rolled-up blankets and other household items were stacked on an old Peugeot bicycle in a “towering [...]

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In Motion: The Experience of Travel

n his latest book, In Motion: The Experience of Travel, Tony Hiss poses a provocative challenge: Can we rethink the value we put on all the accumulated years of our lives we spend in transit, all the “wasted” time spent in-between the places we live and work and visit? As he did in his ground-breaking [...]

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No Exit: Greed and Addiction

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Going Carless or Carfree?

In January, our 1995 Toyota Camry ended up in a scrap-it program. The salvage company that took the car is located in a wasteland of trashed automobiles, trucks and buses on the banks of the Fraser River in Surrey, British Columbia, a suburb of Vancouver. On the way home, our taxi driver said that many [...]

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The Lost Cyclist: The Epic Tale of an American Adventurer and His Mysterious Disappearance

If I could time travel into the past, I’d like to visit the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan where Mexico City stands today. I’d also like to be a guest in a Viennese parlor in 1793 listening to Beethoven play the piano. And I’d like to spend time in an American city after the bicycle had [...]