Our Redlands host fam, the Pompa’s, live in a solar-powered house. It’s cool, the roof of their house is lined with solar panels that powers their electricity, heats hot water, and runs all the pool and hot tub stuff. I also live in a solar-powered 1920’s apartment building, which is awesome because its nice to the planet and basically eliminates my PG&E bill and still has some charm.
Well that Taitt Sato is smart and took everything a step further by researching very cute n hip solar powered earth conscious manufactured homes. And when I saw this stuff on her computer screen last week while sneak-reading over her shoulder, I was very impressed. It’s nice to have smart friends because they always introduce you to something new even when they don’t know they are doing it.
And I have also been reading a very excellent and earth-concsious book: The Omnivore’s Dilemma by SF East Bay homeslice Michael Pollan.

Which is a very good read and extrememly informative regarding what and where most people eat their everyday foods. I highly recommend it, especially for an athlete because we consume more food than most people* (well atleast I do, I can’t really speak for the rest of you skinny people).
*as a side note, I know of one wildly successfull cyclists who, as far as I can tell, really only eats micro-waved cheesey quesadillas and drinks margaritas to wash it down. This person will remain anonymous for the purposes of this post.
And somehow Pollan and his Berkeley smarty pants friends come up to the conclusion that his three-person family’s meal at McDonalds actually required 1.3 gallons of petroleum oil to produce, transport, package, and serve hot under the Golden Arches.
And so under the influence of the Pompa’s, Taitt Sato, and author Michael Pollan I have decided that it would be just so fantastically green and dreamy to live in a solar-powered, green-constructed, manufactured small little home surrounded by my own sustainably-growing produce and sweet farm animals (that I would have to eat because I am an omnivore).
And of course I would still have plenty of time to ride and since I would be living in a trailer thingy, I guess I would need the pink flamingos too.
