Quarterly Stats for December – February

Thought I’d do a quartlerly winter wrap up (December through January) of our biking and car driving stats. The last time I did this was in November.

We have settled into a pretty good groove since starting carfreedays in August. I don’t think we’ll ever be completely car-free, mostly because we just don’t want to (thanks for the phrase, Smudegmo). I think we could live car-free if we wanted to, but for now we’re happy with just driving a lot less than we used to. Baby steps.

We shed our daily driver back in November so we’re down to one vehicle (1987 VW Syncro Westy). We still like to get out of town on occasion and it’s a great road trip vehicle. It sits in our driveway most of the time but it’s available when we want to get out of town. Yes, we could sell the VW van too and just rent a car when we wanted to go somewhere, but for now, we’re keeping it.

 So here you go – our biking, driving and car related stats for December -February (91 days):

• number of carfree days: 78
• longest carfree streak: 18 days (January)
• total number of car trips: 13
  • December = 6
  • January = 3
  • February = 4
• wool purchased for biking in the winter in Seattle: lots 
• tanks of gas purchased: 2
• Tim’s least favorite ride: January 14th
• Biggest load hauled: Anne’s Trader Joe’s run on January 21st
• Seattle weather in January: 
  • 20 days of rain
  • Mean temp = 39.5
  • 4.17 inches of rain 
• drive of shame: couldn’t motivate the four year old to get ready in time for his soccer class so I drove to Magnason Park less than 2 miles away.
• Best car trip: Road trip to Portland for the NAHBS.

 Good times.

 – Anne