I have learned that simply existing in public space as a woman on a bike is the greatest act of bike advocacy and demonstration of bodily autonomy I can do, during this National Bike Month […]
Author: Pattie Baker
Writer, street photographer, urban farmer and global WWOOFer. League Cycling Instructor (#5382) and first Metro Atlanta Bicycle Mayor as part of global consortium with Amsterdam-based social enterprise BYCS. Peace Corps Uganda invitee (June 2020, derailed due to COVID-19). Former CDC Foundation Communications Specialist with State of Alaska Dept. of Health on Healthy You in 2022 project. Mensa member. See books on Amazon in all global markets (USA link: https://www.amazon.com/Pattie-Baker/e/B005JBN7ZK) and on indie book sites.
Been Working my Tailfeathers Off! (Round Ireland with a Duck Update)
A wild, windswept journey in search of roots — and wings Been working my tailfeathers off over here! The sequel to Round America with a Duck is currently in final editing. It is heading to Design this […]
The Women Who Made Me a Mom
As the song goes, time makes you bolder, even children get older, and I’m getting older, too. The babies I held now hold me (photo from when I dipped my tire in the Pacific Ocean […]
Buckhead Tastemaker!
My 2025 Bingo card didn’t include seeing my muddy, sweaty self named a tastemaker of fancy shmancy Buckhead in Atlanta, but here ya’ go (see page 52)! And just in time for National Bike Month! […]
Leap of Faith
The City of Dunwoody, Georgia, USA has confirmed that there will be no pop-up/temporary or permanent protected bike lane anywhere in the city during National Bike Month 2025 (May) or for any confirmed date thereafter*, […]
Time Change
After 19 hours on Amtrak with my folding bike (the still-unnamed replacement to America), I traversed the island of Manhattan from Battery Park to (and across) the George Washington Bridge. We used to cross that […]
America Is Beyond Repair
America (the name of the bike I took Round America with a Duck) is beyond repair. Brakes, cassette, stem. A mess. The cost to repair would be greater than the value of the bike (sentimental value […]
My Brief “Return” to Ireland
I got to make a brief “return” to Ireland as a guest blogger on the WWOOF Ireland website. Here’s what I wrote: 3 Farms in Ireland in 6 Weeks Foals followed me, a bag of […]
