Meet Janet Swim, State College trip leader, and tenth in the 2019 series of rider profiles. Get to know the riders for the PA to DC rides as the series unfolds, then follow the trips! Learn more. Donate.

This will be my fourth year of bicycling with PA IPL to DC. This year I am the bike “leader”, though the truth is I am co-leading it with many other people both on the ride and within PA IPL leading through their experience and efforts to make the ride possible.
I go on this ride for many reasons. First, personally, the bicycle ride viscerally represents my passion for the need to make changes. Moreover, symbolically, it represents going beyond what we now define as ordinary ways to live to engaging in new ways to live that are more symbiotic with nature.
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