Originally Posted by JBHoren

I'm car-free because I'm poor. Period. If I could afford to buy a car, insure it, maintain it, "feed" it, I would; but I can't. So, I ride a bicycle to the supermarket, farmers market, public library, VA medical center, and any/everywhere else that I need/want to. And, if I can't, I generally don't go there. Yeah, it's limiting, but it's a fiscal and physical thing. And yeah, I'm proud of being able to do so, of being independent and self-reliant (and the past two months, healing an !@#$ diabetic foot ulcer, have been difficult ones). I can ride 20, 25, 30, 40, even 50 miles, but I can't walk a quarter-mile. Ego? No; I go.