Posts Tagged as ‘getting started’

November 22, 2008

Illuminate LA Gives Great Car-Free Advice

Blog Illuminate LA has some great, super-practical posts on how to go car-free in Los Angeles.
Rebel Without a Car – Part 1
Rebel Without a Car – Part 2
The posts are geared toward actors trying to get from audition to audition without owning a car, and they give useful tips on everything from public transit etiquette [...]

September 13, 2008

Getting Started: Imagining the Possibilities

One of the first things I did when I got the notion to become car-free was head to the library. I needed expert advice on how to get around, and I figured someone somewhere would have written about this stuff. I was right. Among the car-free books, I found Chris Balish’s How to Live Well [...]

September 13, 2008

Beginning the car-free journey

In January of 2008, I made one of my first new year’s resolutions ever. After a string of bad luck with my aging car (including a hunk of metal just falling off and scraping along the street for a few miles), I was sick of my car. I was sick of getting it fixed, putting [...]