Tom Vanderbilt

we're not doing the thing

This idea of awkward, it reminds me, there's another book reference by Tom Vanderbilt.

It's called Beginners.

It's all about learning.

It all defaults back to us, the driver.

It's no wonder, then, that Tom Vanderbilt, a guy who literally wrote an entire book talking about traffic, calls New York City traffic a giant applied psych lab.

Let's see why he would say that.

He refers to an experiment conducted in England by a traffic psychologist named Ian Walker, where bicycles are rigged with sensors that would calculate the distance and speed of vehicles driving past.

Having this one right here, just finished it.

Tom Vanderbilt did Thomas Cole in Black Dome and is halfway through his 3,500 list.

Get going, Tom.

Good job.

Plow.

Jim seeded an eight mile run on the Catskill Scenic Trail and followed it with a half with a run up Mount Luncianta.

The Sloth Tramps did a backpacking trip on the Blackheads, and I think that included Tom Vanderbilt.

Auntie, a.k.a. Brownski, did some paddling in the Hudson Valley to basically lifeguard on the Hudson Lighthouse Swim.