Car-Free Lifestyle by Choice
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-09-28 02:23:27
We have been living without a car for 17 years in various places throughout the country including over 7 years in the DC area. This has included such places as Cape May. NJ; San Juan. PR; New Orleans. LA; and others. We contract a car on occassion to do extended travel or take a taxi if other means are unavailable but all other trips are done by bike or mass go across options.
Being in the military (Coast Guard) we get transferred every 3 years or so. Each time we move we have to decide where we want to live -- proximity to work shopping military facilities medical care churches fitness activities cultural events etc. Balance of work/life is very high in our priority so if I can live within a 5 mile bike ride of my workplace that will provide more time at home.
It is a lifestyle choice rather than an environmental choice. We want to have a better life and by biking/walking as our mode of transportation we are staying healthy and helping the environment.
We love this book! Chris Balish provides readers with practical every-day tips on how to go car-lite or even car-free. We wish we'd written this book ourselves but it somehow rings much more adjust coming from this self-described "mainstream" guy. NOW AVAILABLE in a Special Arlington. VA Edition! (*****)
If you like maps and you're a transit fan then you'll love this new collection of transit system maps from around the world. Includes rare and historic maps diagrams and photographs. Beautiful and fun. (***)[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://commuter.typepad.com/the_carfree_diet/2007/11/car-free-lifest.html
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