Uber and Lyft ride-hailing strike got you down? Pull out your bike or use bikeshare and go to town! You don’t even have to go the distance. The bus, train, and streetcar in Atlanta all […]
Senior life
A six-minute bike ride from my home is an adorable indie coffee shop that hosts a monthly book reading called A Novel Life. I’ve made it a habit to go (even though I don’t particularly […]
Buzz-kill
So I get to my local city hall, thanks to BikeNoodle, and I join the other bike riders as we wait for the mayor’s proclamation about National Bike Month. One of my fellow citizens says […]
Connecting the dots
I got curious. How many people, and who, are riding shareable electric scooters versus bikes? So I stood by a mural for fifteen minutes on a Sunday afternoon and took these photos to connect the […]
Reviews, and reviewing my choice to do this
Becoming a tour guide with Bicycle Tours of Atlanta last summer was a hard challenge for me — completely different from doing my office corporate jobs, writing articles in a coffee shop, or Traveling at […]
My fifty cents worth
I got off the train a mile or two south of Downtown Atlanta and rode my bike down a busy street named for a Civil Rights icon. I then stood on line with black and […]
Psssst. It has started.
Psssst. It has started. The mulberries are falling. Next up: serviceberries, blueberries, blackberries, pears, plums. apples, peaches, apples, figs, muscadines/scuppernongs, native persimmons, and pomegranates. And it’s ALL FREE , and you get to meet nice strangers […]
Knee-deep in scooters
I’m knee-deep in scooters — or, rather chest-high, as this third test-ride of mine shows. (Hint: I’m working on something . . . ) See here and the totally raw footage* below for previous test-rides. […]
