PEDDLING AWAY DOWN THE ROAD OF LIFE 10/02/2009
Raise your hand if you like to ride bikes!
Chances are, many of you responded positively to that question. If I could get everyone in the U.S. who purchased an adult-sized bicycle in 2008 to read this blog, there would be more than 13 million hands raised at this moment. America’s love affair with the “dandy horse” goes way back. After its initial wave of popularity in the 1880s, the bicycle experienced a resurgence in the wake of the Great Depression. In 1936 the magazine Popular Science provided a summary of biking in the states. "Four Add Comment | INTELLIGENCE WITH
THE EARTH by Christine Petersen "Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself?"
--Henry David Thoreau, Walden 
Christine Petersen is a professional writer, naturalist, and environmental educator who works from her home in Minnesota—when she's not too distracted by the view out the window.
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