Living in the mountains, its probably one of my favorite activities. I felt the healthiest i've ever been mentally/physically last summer when i took it to heart and was off on dirt roads for hours at least a few times a week. Averaging around 50m weekly on hilly dirtroads, and a few treks to mountain lakes ~20m away from my home. I love where i live.
The shortfall was winter (5400ft high sierras showcover is usually from dec-mar/april), but everyone knows i'm a stubborn jackass, and if theres not too much powder on the roads, i'll be riding to work. Everyday.
Just want the snow to melt so i can get out in the woods and RIDE!!
Never owned a car and don't plan to unless theres no other options.
"let those who have talked to the elves, find each other and band together" -TMK
In a society in which nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else's mind or by a disembodied mind, it becomes increasingly difficult to learn the truth about the activities of governments and corporations, about the quality or value of products, or about the health of one's own place and economy.
In such a society, also, our private economies will depend less upon the private ownership of real, usable property, and more upon property that is institutional and abstract, beyond individual control, such as money, insurance policies, certificates of deposit, stocks, etc. And as our private economies become more abstract, the mutual, free helps and pleasures of family and community life will be supplanted by a kind of displaced citizenship and by commerce with impersonal and self-interested suppliers...
The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the natural wealth of localities and the local economies of household, neighborhood, and community - and so destroys democracy, of which the commonwealth is the foundation and practical means.” - Wendell Berry