Don’t do it, don’t go that way :P You’ll get dozens of Dutch and German people who will tell you that “they do it all year long so you can also do it”. You can’t win.
It's absolutely doable in Netherlands and (parts of, usually urban) Germany. That doesn't make it doable in the car-bound hellscape that is much of the US.
I ride a bike or take public transit almost every day too, and live car-free, but I had to leave the US to do it.
