Here's what I know: If gas prices get much higher, I'll be biking to work. It's getting to be too much of an expense to fill the car up every week.
Meanwhile, we're subsidizing Iraq's gasoline so that they can pay 5 cents per gallon to fill their tanks. That's $1 for 20 gallons. I wonder what the price of gas was in Iraq before we subsidized the importing.
I'm spending 1.5% of my salary on gas these days. I think it's time to consider carpooling, public transportation, and dusting my mountain bike. Here's a plan I was mulling over the other day: Berta can drive me to work in the morning, and drop me off with my bike. I would ride back home, avoiding the nasty uphill climb, and probably getting to work at a reasonable time, not all sweaty from peddling.
Biking through the woods to work; now that would be really cool if possible. That would be even better than my current ride to work three fourths of which is along the bike path by the river.
Yeah, I mean, I really didn't want to say it in my last post, but, that's what I was afraid of - that you would run me over on my way to work...
Dang, I guess that I am a l4|\/|3R who forgets to close their i tags.
You know, I often thought about riding my bike to work when I lived there. Heck, I lived a lot closer than you did.
I found it frustrating that it was so close to where I lived but was not really bike suitable day in and day out. The uphill would be greuling to be sure, but the real problem in my opinion was the fact that there were no real burms; especially at some of those bends.
Automobiles really whiz around those turns and my concern was that I would be run over. I am not timid at about riding my bike in automobile traffic; I do it all the time. Between the long steep uphill, lack of burms and blind bends I just thought it would be too dangerous. I don't know how it would be approaching it from your direction but I don't expect that it would be much better.
You know me - I am totally gung-ho about biking for transportation - it's what I use now 90% of the time - but in your case I urge caution on your way to work.
Sure, there are bikes on those roads but they are not people who ride on them every day. Statistically, getting hit while riding your bike on any given day are quite small but when you think about doing it every day it becomes more of a possibility when conditions are less than optimum.
True, it's a dangerous ride out of here no matter which way you go.
There might be some way down through the woods here that I could take and really earn my mountain biking chops. I wonder which is the less dangerous route, through the woods or down the street.
I'll have to post one of the many movies I've taken while whipping down Poorhouse Road like a madmad. If anyone drove like I did while I was biking, I'd be very dead. Every time I take Berta down that way, she closes her eyes and I could swear that I hear her praying.
There has to be a route between Kruse and the first set of railroad tracks. If I could get that far, I could survive the remaining strech of Poorhouse. I could probably invent a route.
I was actually waiting for the day that you biked in so that I could tally some points in my car. How much is it for a guy on a bike?
Strangely, WordPress saw fit to legalize your l4|\/|3 XHTML by adding an <i> tag at the end. Neat. Although, there should be a way to edit comments. I'll have to look into that...