I grew up in rural Minnesota (half-hour drive to the nearest grocery store) and currently live in rural Washington (about the same drive for food that we or our

I grew up in rural Minnesota (half-hour drive to the nearest grocery store) and currently live in rural Washington (about the same drive for food that we or our neighbors don't grow or raise), and in between I lived in cities. A suburb is the last place I'd want to live, in part because I love walking as transportation. Vehicles are only tools to me, never toys (not to say I have not experienced the thrill of zipping 70mph across a field on a snow machine, just that I have no interest in ever doing that again). I try to live and let live, and let people like what they like, but these big shiny toy trucks (macro machines for man-children who used to play with Micro Machines) get stuck in my craw: "The people who drive them often live in suburbs and have big, clean garages full of all-terrain vehicles that they call “toys” next to a row of shiny helmets, a very good option I didn’t have as I drove three-wheelers from one pasture to another with buckets of feed."