Holland: On Bicycles

"Can you ride a bike?" Not kidding--I got asked that. Just because Americans ride bikes as a leisure activity rather than for useful purposes, doesn't mean we can't! The Dutch don't realize that learning to ride a bike is a formative part of any American child's experience. Goodness gracious, I remember my parents arranging for older children to ride bikes at my house so that I would want to learn (I never was/am not now really much of a daredevil).