Can You Just Not Use a Car?

Of course you can live without using a car. It isn’t easy but it is possible. You do not have to tow an Airstream Trailer behind your bike. I know from experience that you can have 75% of your possessions on your bike and sleep indoors, in a foyer, on a massage table, and have crabs.

I’m not sure how that slipped out, I never meant to mention the massage table or my sitting on it wearing a borrowed towel, my privates coated with RID, while ALL of my clothes were baking in the dryer. Just forget you ever heard about it.

Truth be told, I was inbetween apartments and was living off of my bike. I spent some time near a town named Crow and commuted into Eugene, Oregon. I have a scar from a nasty dog bite I got riding down the driveway heading into town. The dog might remember a bad headache from the 2x4 I picked up on the way home. That lovely house, which has at least two of my Christmas trees in it’s yard, segued into a 

fairly nice apartment and a job at the Daily Planet. Sorry fans, it was a restaurant and I’m not Superman.

If you knew how small the pannier’s were and how little I actually owned, you would laugh. But the thing is, I learned a lot. I got pretty tough legs too. That old gas pipe Peugeot became my best friend. I didn’t have much but I had wheels.

These days I have a credit card and a wife and friends with cars. I just spent three weeks living out of a suitcase and the best times I had were on a borrowed bike. Not a racing bike but a functional one. Life is good. I have a house now and live a little higher on the hog but I’m still the guy who slept in the foyer. You don’t have to be able to tow an Airstream behind your bike to live off it, but I’d still give it a shot.