September 2009 Archives
“After decades of urban cycling, he’s come to believe that cities are best seen and understood from a cyclist’s-eye view, which hits a perspectival sweet spot, “faster than a walk, slower than a train, and often slightly higher than a person.” The results can almost mystical, he says in his new book, Bicycle Diaries.” Jebediah Reed writes about David Byrne’s dangerous infatuation with urban cycling on Infrastructurist.com.
At the northern end of New Zealand’s South Island, Angus Phillips finds a fine alternative to the “cruelly rigorous” Appalachian Trail described in Bill Bryson’s in A Walk in the Woods. “After a few days hiking, kayaking and mountain biking on New Zealand’s South Island, I can say categorically that there is a better way. Talk about polar opposites: New Zealand’s Queen Charlotte Track is to the Appalachian Trail what the Ritz-Carlton is to a homeless shelter.” In the Seattle Times.