Bike blog: Two Portlanders cycle South America

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Most Portlanders assume that they need a car, and our conscious choice not to have one is hard for them to understand. A colleague at work jokingly calls me a "wacky Communist biker guy," and many who see me riding to work in a coat and tie probably have similar thoughts. A stranger once asked me if I had lost my license for "too many DWIs." Amanda's mother offered to buy us a car, assuming that money was the issue. Cars are a powerful symbol of freedom in our society, and not owning one isn't just odd, it's
perceived as a real hardship

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Bobwilliams
Internet Marketing

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