Originally Posted by Cyclebum

Fred could tell us a lot about how to live on practically nothing, see the US on a bicycle, and have a positive outlook while doing so. With I'll add, a physical handicap. Not that many of us really want to hear about such. We don't have to, want to, have time for, or even could live that way. Besides, his way is not "cool" in our consumer obsessed society whose economy is based entirely on buy, buy, buy. Fred is interesting proof that there is an honorable alternative when you live in a rich country where millions of perfectly useful items are thrown away everyday.