Four wheels bad (Week 34)
"The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad and incomplete in the urban compound." Not only is Marshall McLuhan probably the smartest person ever to come out of Edmonton (maybe a low bar since I'm also in that group) he also had a lot to say about our modern way of life and what it's doing to us. Enter the not-so-humble automobile, which we ooh and ahh over like a newborn baby. We simply can't imagine a life without our four-wheeled friend. So, how about a week then? What would it be like to go seven days without getting in our adorable little VW hatch? This experiment would have been a lot easier when I was on vacation, cycling down the California coast . So I intentionally waited for a week when I thought I might "need" the car. It also turned out to be a week of fairly constant rain here in Victoria, which made it that much more challenging. Besides our buddy McLuhan, much has been written about how perso...