Awesome Sue! Wonderful article. Love that you have cargo bikes -- they are so cool. I'd love to have one one day. I am enamoured with the Bike Friday Haul-a-day.

And you are lucky that you don't sweat much. I am a sweater, big time. So for me, commuting (if I still worked) would be tougher. But I still love the idea of a car-free life. Although we have a motorhome so are obviously not car-free, we travel with six bicycles (a roadie, a MTB, and a folder each for DH and me), and we have no towed vehicle, so once we're parked in a campsite (and we've stayed as long as 2 months in one place), we might as well be car-free, because we're not going to unhook our motorhome to drive down to the store. We walk or bike, or take the bus!