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Carfree roundup July 7

by Angela 07.07.2010

For you, a little news In the depressing news departments, we’re all cutting transit funding and apparently a recent survey says that Americans want it that way — we’d much rather cut transit than highway spending. But from the better news department, Portland, Oregon, is rapidly becoming the city we love to hate around my [...]

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Join us at Honkfest!

by Angela 10.09.2009

It’s October, and that means it’s time for Honkfest, Somerville’s fabulous music festival. We’ll be enjoying the bands on Saturday and riding our fabulous Xtracycle in the parade on Sunday. We’ll be with at least one other family with a kid/cargo bike setup, and if you have your kids on a bike or a cargo [...]

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First Bus Trip and Parent Group Round-up

by Dorea 06.15.2009

Baby R. and I went on our first bus trip on Friday. I tied him to my chest in our stretchy wrap (really just 4 1/2 yards of Jersey Knit fabric, tied like this), grabbed the diaper bag, took a moment to revel in not needing to pack any bottles since I’m nursing this kid, [...]

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Carfree toddler (and grown up) concerts this week

by Dorea 04.22.2009

H’s grandma (aka Angela’s mom, aka “Baba”) tipped us off about a series of great toddler-friendly T-accessible activities this week. All this week there are free guitar concerts inside South Station hosted by the Boston Classical Guitar Society. Yesterday, H and I headed downtown on the red line to meet up with Baba, eat a [...]

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Introducing our new xtracycle kid seat!

by Angela 10.15.2008

We’ve written before about our problems with the peapod seat for the xtracycle, that primarily stemmed from incompatibility with the our small bike frame frame (Angela is 5′ 1″….what can you do?). Then, a generous offer from Rob Hanson on the rootsradicals yahoo group solved all of our problems. Rob custom built us this snap [...]

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Train trip to Drumlin Farm

by Dorea 10.06.2008

On Sunday, we made a train trip with Grandma (aka “Baba”) to the Drumlin Farm Fall Festival just West of here in Lincoln, MA. Prior to going to the farm, H insisted that there would be “Horses and cows and sheep and turtles and crabs closing their eyes under the water.” Perhaps she was unduly [...]

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Last Year’s Carfree Camping Trip

by Angela 09.17.2008

Our friend, the swadfather, suggested that we do more blogging about car free trips. That’s when we realized that, aside from Dorea’s Woods Hole trip, we really haven’t done many. That’s mostly because we’re homebodies. After all, if we went away for the weekend, we’d miss socializing at our favorite park. We have done one [...]

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Unforseen perks, and a small logistical problem

by Dorea 09.10.2008

Last night a close friend of ours was celebrating his birthday. Now, this might not seem like a big deal, except for that this group of friends contains several families with very young kids, and the birthday boy really wanted an adults-only party, so there were many logistics involved. We managed to rustle up a [...]

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Dispatch from Woods Hole

by Dorea 08.26.2008

A couple folks have requested an update from Woods Hole. I’m learning a lot, there are a lot of great folks, the scenery is lovely, the entire town is about about 3 blocks square (much of that is the Marine Biological Laboratory where I’m studying for the month), and they feed us all the time. [...]

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I love the library!

by Angela 08.14.2008

To me the library is just about the greatest place on earth. It’s like going to a Barnes and Noble where everything is free (but unfortunately there’s no Starbucks). I love it even more now that I’m a parent. Here’s some reasons you should love the library too, courtesy of Thrifty Green Thursday at Green [...]

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