I've always had a touch of the anti-establishment in me and my choosing to bike when everyone else is using a car is one way I express it, I guess. Now that I'm retired, I have a whole closet full of professional career clothes, but I do like to dress up, now and then, so I can't bring myself to let them go, just yet, even though this is hardcore blue jeans country, up here in the north, almost regardless of the function. Hey, we can get snow any month of the year.

When I was a career gal, down in the big cities, I packed my work clothes in a double pannier on the bike, because my commute was just too long and too rough and oftentimes in bad weather. Got to work a half hour early and changed and cleaned up. Small price to pay, though, for being able to commute on the bike.