Saving the leech-lake and the jungle-underbrush as goals to work up to (the helmet-less highway bike rides are plainly out of the question, ever), we sent them down the same shoreline we walked 30 years ago: no rules, no directions, no curfew.
Memories of vibrant streets peppered with multi-hued buses swerving on lane-less highways are dear to me.
They added that there was no McDonalds or Starbucks in Wengen, much less a highway or high-rise.
Here, it's a more or less anonymous highway town in the northern part of the state, a place to pass through rather than settle down in, at least for anyone with the slightest ambition.
(A portion of the Connecticut trail has since been rerouted [1979 83] to be more scenic, adhering less to highways and more to wilderness, and includes a Ned K. Anderson Memorial Bridge).
It is important to note that the 50-150 m distance group was younger, had lower BMI, higher SES, and traveled less on highways, resembling the urban background population.
Peter Samuel, editor of the Toll Roads Newsletter, said people have long used out-of-state systems to pay their electronic toll bills -- particularly since some systems offer discounts to drivers to encourage off-peak travel and less-crowded highways.
And it's more or less harmless: no highway wrecks or liver failure or ghastly teen mayhem.
Increasingly, it seems likely that the Net will end up looking less like the highway system and more like a collection of Safeways.
