It's Day 7 of the week-long Car-Free Challenge, and there's no doubt I will make it through the final day without driving or riding in a car.
If I have to, I'll crawl home tonight -- which may be the case after the Alternative Transportation Week Wrap-Up Party, beginning at 5 p.m. at the Bier Stube in downtown Moline.
Last night I filled out QC TAG's Car-Free Challenge online survey, logging the total miles which, by the end of today, I will have biked (50.8), bused (27.8) and walked (5.4) during the past seven days.
My total car-free miles for the week will come to 84 miles by the end of today ... wait -- make that 86.7. I found another 2.7 miles I forgot to put on the survey.
Oh well, whatever. The distance isn't as important as the journey.
This morning I biked and bused to work (more people definitely ride the bus when it rains) and finished filming my video, which was only partially completed Thursday. Hopefully before the end of the day I will be able to post the masterpiece.
As the week draws to a close, I can honestly say I have not missed driving at all. However, I am pretty exhausted from the biking, figuring out the buses, blogging, photographing, videotaping and dealing with a completely different way of getting from Point A to Point B.
Sometime this weekend I'll post my next and final entry on Alternative Transportation Week -- probably some sort of Top 10 list of the things that stick out most from the past seven days.
Before then, however, it's on to the Bier Stube . . .
Hello Joe,
ReplyDeleteRiding gets easier. Until I started riding through the winters, it took me a week or two to get back in the riding mode in the spring.
Glad your week was enjoyable and you even got to experience some rain to make it a little more authentic.
:-) Andy