Defying the Maine governor's voluntary quarantine request, nurse Kaci Hickox went for a bike ride with her boyfriend Thursday. Riding her bike, she told reporters she hoped to resolve the situation amicably.

It was the second time Hickox broke her contested quarantine, including a brief meeting with reporters outside her home on Wednesday. She even shook a hand from someone who offered it.

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"I'm not willing to stand here and let my civil rights be violated when it's not science-based," Hickox said.

Hickox was surrounded by media for the one hour jaunt through the Northern Maine countryside. They traversed country lanes and hiking trails on their mountain bike, all the time being tailed by a state police vehicle. Absent a court order, police couldn't stop her.

Showing no symptoms, testing negative for Ebola and feeling great despite calls for a 21-day quarantine, Hickox has fought the attempt to keep her inside her home. She had been kept in a New Jersey hospital medical tent following her recent return from West Africa where she had helped treat Ebola patients.

Maine officials have gone to court to seek Hickox's detention through Nov. 10 when the 21-day Ebola incubation period ends for her. Hickox also has retained counsel and may consider countersuing the state for curbing her civil rights.

Norman Siegel, one of Hickox's attorneys said fear about her condition was "not based on medical facts," adding, "there's a lot of misinformation about how Ebola is transmitted."

Hickox was a Doctors Without Borders volunteer in Sierra Leone. When she returned to the U.S. she was forced into quarantine by an order from New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie that people arriving at Newark's airport from West Africa had to be quarantined for 21 days

Hickox was forced to spend a weekend in a New Jersey hospital tent before returning to Maine where she shares a home with a boyfriend who is a nursing student at an University of Maine campus.

Ebola only spreads through direct contact with bodily fluids from someone infected with the disease, according to scientists. While the disease has killed more than 4,000 people in West Africa, only four people in the U.S., three of them health workers treating an Ebola patient, have been infected.

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