Wistful thinking on gas/oil use

When the 70s oil crisis hit, my ex-husband was driving a beater car (a superannuated land yacht) 110 miles round trip to a job he'd taken in Allentown PA. As a result, we had to move. We simply couldn't afford the gas, if we could even find it. It about killed me to leave Philadelphia, where if he'd gotten a job locally he could have taken the bus or the train, and it took me 18 weary years to get back.

It was a painful lesson learned for me, and as soon as I escaped the Lehigh Valley I made sure that I never took another job that I couldn't walk to in a pinch, even if it meant that either my living situation or my work involved some compromises in income or comfort.

So I've been watching the pain at the pump over the last year with a certain "been there, done that" feeling and more than a pinch of smugness (sorry folks).

( so where am I going with this? )

Nice day for something

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Originally uploaded by lb_philly.

Clear blue sky and temperatures in the 50s/60s. We biked the West River Drive and I took a few fall foliage shots. There are limits to what you can do with a point and shoot, but I got a few that I liked.

On our way back we stopped at the Zoo, which was packed with hobgoblins in strollers and their grownups. If you click through to my photostream, you can see them.

So I biked 12 miles, walked (albeit slowly) for an hour, then came home and did 23 sit-ups, woo-hoo. And I'm just about back on program.