Thanks for reading and responding. I nearly flipped myself avoiding a snake a couple of months ago. I’d be crushed if I ran over a turtle although I flattened a squirrel once. The stupid thing dashed out right under my front tire.

Now it’s cold AF so I don’t get out much. And I used to be so hard core! Anyway like I said this is a small city. Seems like you live in a more sparsely populated place where the cars are moving faster in general, which makes it much dicier. In Providence many of the intersections are of the corridor of death type — a bitch even for cars. But I have found that if I get out in the traffic stream they don’t like it but I make them respect it. In more rural areas where they are moving north of 50mph well, like I said in the article I’m not suicidal.

Anyway thanks again. “Taking it to the Streets Pt. 1" isn’t getting much play although the first installment of THE CRABBY CYCLIST (“How Pedestrian”) was distributed so go figure.