the GOT bike

 I heard an interview on the BBC with Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter who had been arrested and eventually traded back to the United States by Russia and has just released a new book of the experience. He mentions how writing the book had augmented his other forms of therapy. I can relate. I started this blog a number of months before I was hit by a car, when it was my intention to demonstrate the viability of living without a motor vehicle by racing bikes again, without one. Of course, I completed only two races before I was sidelined by a car that didn't leave me enough room on the side of the road. I was then left for dead. I get it. The threat of law enforcement can be scary, and we, as a species evolved with a fight or flight response to threats. The driver was scared and left, and having made that choice, they couldn't later take it back. Well, I survived, and I'll happily take that in trade over the punishment of some person who made a couple very...