Well, I am a travelling folkie without wheels, but I don't gig much. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, do not know how to drive and have never had a car. So I do everything I do, go everywhere I go, on buses, BART, trains, planes and shuttles, making use of rides from friends when they are offered. I used to walk more than I do -- it's a two and a half mile walk to my house from the point where the bus system cuts off at night and I used to make it regularly twice a week, sometimes carrying a guitar with a backpack attachment and/or a fiddle.

It's not ideal, and I have considered trying -- again -- to learn to drive. (I have C.P.) But if I were blind I'd be in the same boat -- what does Frankie Armstrong do? She used to travel a lot. Or Doc Watson?

I do manage to get myself to several music camps a year, to music parties, to the occasional Open Mic, to concerts. I have led workshops in Vancouver and I go to Taos for writing workshops and retreats quite regularly via Southwest Airlines and the Twin Hearts Shuttle. It works for me after a fashion and I am currently forty-five years old.