My main form of transportation at that time was a bicycle, because bicycles could move though the crowd.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle.
When I was hitch-hiking, people had to follow me, 'cause I didn't stay long.
I traveled enormously during the 1960's, when you measured everything by where you traveled and what you did as travelers.
By 1990 I went back to no gasoline; I was just riding around on my bike, taking the bus. I had a tiny little electric car that didn't go very far or very fast. People thought I'd lost my mind. Even my own family thought I'd lost my mind.
That's what I liked about hitch-hiking. If a crowd wasn't big enough, I kept walkin.'
My favorite form of transportation is walking. I live in a neighborhood where you can walk to restaurants, banks, and shops.
So while I was studying, I rode my Trials bike, then I moved to roadracing.
My first car was a motorcycle.
Or in the early days we didn't have the bus, we had a station wagon.
I talked late, swam late, did not learn to ride a bike until college - and might never have walked or learned to drive a car if my parents hadn't overruled my lack of motivation and virtually forced me to embrace both forms of transportation. I suspect I was happy to sit in a corner with a book.