Also kinda obvious--get off your posterior!

[me&thegals]

How many of you are committed to walking, biking or otherwise self-propelling yourself rather than driving?

I try really hard to never drive anywhere closer than 6 miles away, but it really takes a commitment to stick to that. (and I don't always manage that )

Does anybody else out there set goals to keep themselves active and not using gas?

 

[reinbeau]

I walk every morning - but I can't walk or bike to the appointments I have during the day, they're timed too close (I drive from studio to studio to teach). I have a more fuel efficient car, but that's as good as it's going to get around here, there's absolutely no public transportation.

 

[krjwaj]

We take the dog on nightly walks after dinner. We are not close enough to safety walk/ride bikes to anything except the neighborhood across the road for a bike ride.

**But we go the gym 3-4 times/week and I teach group fitness.

 

[miss_thenorth]

I live too far out of town to be able to walk to do errands. our "town" has a variety store, and thats it.

i have to shop at a town 15-20 minutes away (driving at 80kmh) so I line up all my errands on grocery day.

And if I need anything in "town", we haul our own water, so we usually get water when we need to go to the store.

So, unfortunately, walking , other than for pleasure, is out.

 

[enjoy the ride]

Hardly ever walk more than to the mail box about 1000 ft away. Everything is uphill or down hill here (seriously) and there is nothing but residences for 7 miles. I will walk to the little post office about 2 miles away when there is call but most of my time is spent around my own place.
I try to go to town no more than once in 2 weeks but lately it's been every week, darn it.

 

[patandchickens]

Alas, living on a small but VERY busy rural road with huge numbers of commuters and gravel trucks whizzing by all day at 65-75 mph (no kidding), it is impossible for me to walk or bicycle anywhere

Pat

 

[me&thegals]

All of these replies are reminding me that rural America/Canada is not really set up for public transit or others ways of traveling (bike paths, walking paths). I sometimes get a crick in my neck constantly turning around to check for traffic while out on our country roads. I just KNOW I'm going to die someday while crossing the road to quick get to an asparagus hot spot (in the ditch on the other side)!

 

[miss_thenorth]

All of these replies are reminding me that rural America/Canada is not really set up for public transit or others ways of traveling (bike paths, walking paths). I sometimes get a crick in my neck constantly turning around to check for traffic while out on our country roads. I just KNOW I'm going to die someday while crossing the road to quick get to an asparagus hot spot (in the ditch on the other side)!

I have a huge asparagus plot just on the other side of my gravel road, with some more just down the other gravel road(in the ditch also). I do walk to them in the spring, and I love having enough asparagus in my freezer for the winter.

Pleas be safe but don't give up your wild asparagus!!!!

 

[FarmerChick]

I bike when camping etc. for fun. I walk the farm all day (have too..LOL) so basically I don't walk or bike for errands at all.....everything is too far away and the main road is dangerous. No way I am biking out there one moped guy that rode for years got hit by a car and passed away about 5 mos. ago......reminder to me that it just isn't safe enough.

I wish I had public transportation and such but it isn't here.

 

[farm_mom]

I'm in the same situation as miss_thenorth and patandchickens. Almost everything is a good 20 miles away or more, so I make 1 trip in when I need to run errands and try to get everything done at once. I also live on a very busy road. (All those city folk trying to get to the lake, factory workers getting to and fro, and farm equipment.) The traffic is fast and constant, making taking a stroll around here a dangerous endevour!