Biking

To work! On Tuesday I started biking to work. It's awesome. Now that we live much closer to work it's making my daily commute that much nicer. I'm not saving that much in gas, maybe a gallon or two a week, five miles roundtrip, but that's six or seven whole bucks a week saved. That's $312 a year. Nice. I hope I will be able to register my car to be an occasional driver instead of everyday. Geico should be able to lower my rates even more! It takes me about 10 minutes to get to Tippett.

On Thursday we swarm, which is basically evening biking on the trails here in the East Bay. Some really fun dirt trails around here. Not as fun as Vancouver or Maryland, primarily because there's almost no singletrack! Fireroads suck, which encompasses most of the trails here in the East Bay. Over in Marin and South Bay (San Jose, Palo Alto) there are more singletrack trails.

I'm so glad that we're that much closer. Here's my bike route. I don't really go down San Pablo Ave., which is a two lane divided highway. I go down 9th street which is west of San Pablo. There's a nice trail underneath the BART tracks that I took last night which was quite nice.