Baby you can … oh, never mind (Comments: 0)

I drove my car for the first time in 3+ weeks tonight. I had to do some house visits for a union organizing campaign, and I took a worker with me. One of my co-workers suggested a set of pegs for the back wheel so the worker could stand on the back. Maybe I’ll try that, right before they fire me.

Anyway, I was surprised to find that I felt weird driving the car. Let’s not get carried away — I’ve been using a car as my primary mode of transportation for most of the past 1,716 weeks, and I’ve been bike-only for three weeks. Even so, I felt kinda guilty and exposed to be driving in the car. Being on a bike all the time just feels … cool. And it comes with that delightful whiff of moral superiority that makes every day brighter.

Last week, I averaged 10 miles a day. I’m finding that there’s just about nothing I do that I can’t do on the bike. Even transporting the kids around. I have a bike trailer and can take my older son wherever he needs to go. We went to a soccer game the other night. It was about 90° in the shade. When we got to the stadium, my son, who had been sitting in the trailer singing the entire time, said, “Whew! I’m tired!” Amazed, I asked, “From what?” “From all that sitting!” I’ve already ordered the new Arkel Airtight Kid Transporter Pannier. It should be here any day now.

UPDATE: I ran into an interesting wardrobe malfunction. I brought my work clothes to work and left them there last night. That included my pants, stuck through the loops of which was the only belt I own. I’ve lost 20+ pounds in the past six months, so all my pants are big and I need the belt to be sure they don’t fall down. Unfortunately, the belt was at the office and I wasn’t, so I was crossing my fingers while I was out doing house visits, and hoping that I wouldn’t end up doing some of the visit half-naked. As it turned out, we spent most of the evening sitting on the couch in the worker’s home, so all was well. Phew!

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