140. Biking Through American Freedom with Benedikt Hartl

Original Drawing by Tori Haynes

This week, we are joined again with Benedikt Hartl. Hartl and his girlfriend recently biked from Seattle to La Jolla, and shares his experience as a European traveling through the West Coast as well as the architectural impacts he observed.

Timestamp Outline 

2:20    Basic information: where to where did you go? How long did it take? How many miles? Statistics?

4:00   “Europeans on the run” VP

5:58 “You don’t meet that many people on the street. So, you meet them at the gas station” BH

12:16    “In the U.S., bicycling is like a statement” BH

14:54 What were we some interesting stories and memorable encounters?

15:57 Encounter with freedom: America vs. Europe

27:44    American and European camping

33:58 The Vagabond – Robert Louis Stevenson

34:29 Architecture in America? Redwood trees

39:36 Kishkindha – How do we learn to live on earth?
Kishkindha Munich/Norway – BH’s project