Our good friend (and sometimes employee) Joe Diomede wrote this great article about pedaling through life, first in the Bronx and now around the foothills of the Pyrenees in Southern France with his wife and two children.
Cycling Into Fatherhood By Joe Diomede January 10, 2012
via Cycling Into Fatherhood | mothering.
Bicycles have always been a part of my life. My childhood days in The Bronx seemed to be spent on the seat of some sort of bicycle or another, delivering meat for the local butcher or building ramps to jump off with my friends, the bicycle was ever-present. Many people have childhood memories of their first bike, but I seemed to have kept alive that child in myself, and although I’m now 50 years old, I still love the two wheeled invention that has literally shaped my life as a person, a partner and a father.
I have probably taken my love of cycling to extreme measures. I have done three very long journeys around this planet of ours. On those long multi-year adventures, I made friends, lived in foreign lands, and even met my English wife Angie while pedaling in China. The simple machine is an inexpensive, self-sufficient, healthy means of transport, as well as helping to re-shape the way we think about personal mobility, plus it can also instill a powerful feeling of freedom and love of the outdoors into your children – at any age.
