Rolling
Birdie's sleep patterns right now don't give me time to take her to the lake in the morning, get home, feed her and shower and be ready for work. Instead, I've been taking her down to the lake right after work whenever the weather allows it and there are no other conflicts. Last year I would take all sorts of alternate routes down to the lake, but now that Birdie is fully mobile, she's not wild about sitting in the stroller that long. Therefore, we go straight to the lake, take our picture and then head to the playground so she can run around and swing some before we head home for her dinner and bedtime. I don't yet recognize all the folks on the playground, but I'm sure we'll get there.
Last year I took 180 walks to the lake. Using the most direct route of 3 miles, that puts a floor of 540 miles on my walks to the lake. Since I very often intentionally took other routes, it's absolutely much more than that. If we say 3.5 miles, which still seems on the low side, that gets us to 630 miles.
In 2021, I only bought three tanks of gas. Conveniently, one was on January 10 and one was on December 21. Between those two dates I added 598 miles to my odometer. This means that even with a very conservative estimate of 630 miles walked to the lake, I walked more miles than I drove in 2021. Throw in a bunch of walks for Tulip in the last five months of her life, walking with my father around his neighborhood, walking at the zoo, etc., and I blew the car out of the water. That doesn't count me riding in the car while M drove, but that's still pretty impressive.
This, of course, follows a 2020 where I rode my bike 2556 miles. My mileage log for 2020 shows that between January 4, 2020 and January 10, 2021, put 3,221 miles on my car's odometer. While I certainly walked Tulip ever day that year, even with an estimate of 1 mile of walking Tulip per day (generous given her advanced age and health issues), I probably drove my car more miles than I biked & rode in 2020, but it was within a single tank of gas. Add in our rental car for Orlando and the gap widens.
For comparison purposes, in 2019 I put 16,676 miles on the pedometer between my first and last tank of gas of the year. I've done less than one quarter of that distance since. Given how few miles I've driven and the still inflated price of used cards, you can see why M and I had a serious conversation about selling my 2010 Honda Civic. We opted against it since it's paid off and not costing us much in insurance, but it seems entirely likely that we could have made more money than I paid for it back in 2012.
Last year I took 180 walks to the lake. Using the most direct route of 3 miles, that puts a floor of 540 miles on my walks to the lake. Since I very often intentionally took other routes, it's absolutely much more than that. If we say 3.5 miles, which still seems on the low side, that gets us to 630 miles.
In 2021, I only bought three tanks of gas. Conveniently, one was on January 10 and one was on December 21. Between those two dates I added 598 miles to my odometer. This means that even with a very conservative estimate of 630 miles walked to the lake, I walked more miles than I drove in 2021. Throw in a bunch of walks for Tulip in the last five months of her life, walking with my father around his neighborhood, walking at the zoo, etc., and I blew the car out of the water. That doesn't count me riding in the car while M drove, but that's still pretty impressive.
This, of course, follows a 2020 where I rode my bike 2556 miles. My mileage log for 2020 shows that between January 4, 2020 and January 10, 2021, put 3,221 miles on my car's odometer. While I certainly walked Tulip ever day that year, even with an estimate of 1 mile of walking Tulip per day (generous given her advanced age and health issues), I probably drove my car more miles than I biked & rode in 2020, but it was within a single tank of gas. Add in our rental car for Orlando and the gap widens.
For comparison purposes, in 2019 I put 16,676 miles on the pedometer between my first and last tank of gas of the year. I've done less than one quarter of that distance since. Given how few miles I've driven and the still inflated price of used cards, you can see why M and I had a serious conversation about selling my 2010 Honda Civic. We opted against it since it's paid off and not costing us much in insurance, but it seems entirely likely that we could have made more money than I paid for it back in 2012.