140. Biking Through American Freedom with Benedikt Hartl

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140. Biking Through American Freedom with Benedikt Hartl

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Mar 31, 2023

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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.

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Mar 31, 2023

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140. Biking Through American Freedom with Benedikt Hartl

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