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Intended to be viewed as part of a set. (Taken with the Diana-style setting of the Vignette app on my mobile phone.)
I recently found a stack of handwritten notepads from 3/29/1995 through 6/9/1997 where I logged the commutes to school. I have complete logs for the entire 2 years of driving to school, including start time, end time, time traveled, who drove, and in what car. It would appear that my fascination with GPS and data logging began at a relatively early age.
Aside from the canal boats synonymous with Amsterdam, biking in the canal streets is quintessentially Dutch. Never have I come across such garages for bikes in quite the magnitude and sheer volume as I have here.
Arthur Lanoux-Nguyen
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My old KHS mountain bike, commuting bike, converted to a single speed. I kept the front sprockets because it is a cheep set up that can't be separated.
Mary G. on her Long Haul Trucker at the White House Plaza: more at The Daily Randonneur: thedailyrandonneur.wordpress.com/
I like taking something as routine and ordinary as my commute to work and finding within it an inward grace and richness. My commute is about 3 miles, from the east side of Green Lake to the Greenwood Public Library, and when I take the time to walk rather than drive, my journey takes me along the paved path around Green Lake. I am fortunate that my walking commute includes a green space like this, but I agree with Jeff Speck, the author of Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America One Step at a Time, who says that not all green spaces are the most appealing landscapes for walkers. He found that walkers want visual interest, such as shop fronts and street vendors, and spaces that give a sense of enclosure,
such as porches, arcades, awnings and colonnades.
Speck also distinguishes between ‘useful’ walking and ‘recreational’ walking. For a city to be seen as pedestrian friendly, one must be able to incorporate walking into one’s daily routines, such as picking up dry cleaning or groceries, stopping at the library, or visiting a coffee shop or bookstore. Speck points out that when you choose to go car-less, you support local businesses more. And because city-dwellers can drive less, their environmental imprint is usually much smaller than those who live in the suburbs or the country.
And that is true for me. Once I leave the lake path, my walking commute takes me through residential streets up to Phinney ridge. There I walk north along Greenwood Avenue, a street lined with interesting store windows and small shops. Most days I stop for coffee on my way to work, and I have a handful of coffeeshops to choose from along my route – Starbucks, of course, but also, Herkimer Coffee, Caffe Vita, Chocolati Café, Makeda Coffee and Diva’s. I might stop at Ken’s Market for a piece of fruit for lunch or a loaf of bread for supper. A quick errand might take me to the Phinney Ridge TrueValue Hardware Store or other local shops and eateries. I’m supporting local businesses and building a sense of community, two key rewards of walking.
Walking gives an immediacy to the seasonal changes around me, unlike driving where a glass window separates me from the air, the weather, and sounds. When I walk, I know my environment through my skin and in my body.
One year I made it a point to follow the seasonal changes of four maple trees in a parking strip two blocks into my walking commute. During my “Year of Tree Watching” I photographed and documented the changes in these trees every week or so – from dormant winter buds to flowers and leaves, to the fall of maple leaves.
“. . . walking is not only a joy in itself, but that it gives an intimacy with the sacred things and the primal things of earth that are not revealed to those who rush by on wheels.”
-- from “Traveling Afoot” by John Finlay
My walks to work are in the spirit of discovery and celebration of the natural world. My greatest joys are in noticing the seasonal changes in the yards and gardens I pass – small things that put me in touch with the grand movements of the Universe. Simply by paying attention, I am rewarded by the sight of a spider web glistening with dew, a hummingbird flitting in a crocosmia blossom, the pink glow of the sky at sunrise.
A pause on the commute at this Cherry Tree that is about done dropping its flowers. This was also my first commute with the Baggins Adam saddlebag I recently acquired. I write a bit about all of this in this blog post.
Detail of my commuting from the very first day I moved to DC and began commuting to Greenbelt. This shows transit in cooler colors and car travel in warmer colors.
I tried transit, but the early onset of the 2010 winter put an end to that...
- Marching for 10 minutes across a stretch of gusty parking lot just wasn't my idea of fun. Not to mention I still had an additional 10 minutes beyond that on each end (10 min on the home side; a total of 20 min on the office side). All-in-all I quite enjoyed that latter 10 minutes; it was the 10 minutes through a parking lot that felt like forever.
- It happened to coincide with the start of bridge work on New York Ave which improved traffic flow despite there being a work zone.
- That was right about the time when the work environment had changed at that office, causing me to prefer just getting home as soon as possible.
- Walking across Cherry Hill Road in Greenbelt as well as Rhode Island Avenue in DC (especially the latter at night) weren't a very good definition of safety, neither in the sense of traffic safety nor from a crime standpoint... though I wasn't particularly concerned of the latter.
So ultimately: I could cut my commute in half and remain warm if I just drove, despite my love of transit.
Here's my chart for my subsequent office location in Merrifield, VA, tracking from the first day at that office until my last day there: www.flickr.com/photos/thisisbossi/7086352643/
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Christian from BBG sent me these flicks of the straps he rocking from Commute...the new company he's riding for. Gotta say that even though there's ton of strap companies still rolling out these look pretty damn nice. Apparently they're going to be really cheap as well! There's a ton of photos below...
The Wagu (aka Wasui) lagoon is on a tributary of the Sepik river and is known principally for its varied bird-life and for the low level of the water in the drier seasons.
Woke up to a vigorous snowfall. (This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Please provide attribution and a link back to this web page in a manner that associates the image with the image credit.)
Dual award winner Monica Patti of Boeing Employees Credit Union, with the Commute Smart Employer Champion award and the Diamond Ring for Outstanding Leadership award.
Edmonds-Kingston Ferry leaving port for Kingston in Edmonds, WA. Taken with Canon EOS Rebel T6 with Telephoto lens on September 23, 2018
I had an early morning (for me) medical appointment (the details of which are happily leaving my memory (but will be renewed again in a month)) in Sapporo. The Rapid Airport Express doesn't leave early enough to use it in time for my appointment so we took the local, which had a lot of people headed towards work (or other) in Sapporo. It's no where near as crowded as Tokyo or Osaka, but crowded enough that the heater wasn't needed.