I went to buy coffee and some #summersantagoespostal and#beachinbookswap gifts and ended up with a book for me. As soon as I walked in they had a whole bike display. I couldn't resist. #bookhaul
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The Enlightened Cyclist: Commuter Angst, Dangerous Drivers, and Other Obstacles on the Path to Two-Wheeled Trancendence | 
I went to buy coffee and some #summersantagoespostal and#beachinbookswap gifts and ended up with a book for me. As soon as I walked in they had a whole bike display. I couldn't resist. #bookhaul
"The challenge then is ... to rise above the primal nature of commuting, and conquer this Last Frontier of Hostility and Indifference. ... in the chaos, we reduce drivers to their cars and cyclists to their bicycles. However, this only serves to exacerbate our mutual hostility, since divorcing a person from his or her humanity in a primal situation can be disastrous. It just places us at greater remove from our own compassion."
