drive less

So, I moved out with Cixelsid and now I live a 7 minute ( Yes I’ve timed it) walk from work.

I drive to class two nights a week and usually one day on the weekend. :D

If I move super close to my work, like say the very nice looking apartment complex literally right next door, I will reduce my driving a hundred fold. Okay, maybe that much, but I won’t have to drive to work which is the bulk of my driving (of course that also might be because 95% of the places I need to go are more or less on my way home).

Not doing too good at this. i was doing really good riding the bus all the time. last week, wasn’t so good, maybe this week’ll be a little bit better. we’ll see.

I took the bus today. It was so nice. I just read when the bus was on the freeway – in the afternoon anyway, in the morning it was a little too crowded and my hands a little too full.

And of course there was much less driving involved on my part. Go me! Actually, that made what part of the ride home I did have to drive that much more enjoyable… I mean, I got on the freeway right where all the traffic ended and then just went. Of course I’d rather be able to take public transport to within a couple blocks of my house… but this is a step in the right direction.

So my friend called me lsat night to tell me she got engaged and ask me to be her bridesmaid (I said yes ;-) ) and well… I didn’t get to sleep until much later than I’d intended. So I overslept and had to drive all the way b/c I missed the bus. Tomorrow I’ll get up in time, because I’m going to bed in five minutes.

I just added this, but htis is going to be a difficult goal for me because I live about an hour from where I work and no publlic transit goes through my town to where I have to go (which is actually a very ridiculous situation if you ask me because I live in the middle of 2 cities and I think there should be a commuter bus/train running between these cities in the morning). As such, I’ll be going the park and ride route, which I’m still kind of anxious about seeing how this works. But I think I’m going to give it a shot on Monday.

There’s so many reasons this will be good. My ultimate goal is to live somewhere that I can walk to the bus stop and take the bus to work (because my work’s going to be moving to somewhere that I don’t mind working, but wouldn’t want to live. Otherwise I’d say bike or walk to work.)

I have been trying to walk when I can and cut down in between trips, like going from the movie theater to the library three blocks away by foot, no matter how much my younger brother groaned about it. Or avoiding driving across the parking lot for stupid reasons. Feet are my friends and I’m working on remembering that rather than thinking of the car all the time.