Gas Prices

In this day and age with gas prices so exorbitantly high I'm trying to redefine my car usage. Actually, since my car has basically been broke down since October of 2006 this isn't too difficult. I walk a lot and catch rides from friends. Today however, my 5 year old and I decided to ride the bike with the bike trailer and take her to school. Now under normal circumstances it would be an easy ride. But I am quite apparently "out of shape". Yup... The one mile ride went up several unplanned hills. I have never really noticed them as my husband is usually the one riding the bike with the bike trailer and my daughter is in the trailer. I generally trail along behind on my own bike. I'm sure I need to do this more often, of course, I don't really want to. I mean do any of us really really want to exercise? I didn't think so. We do it because its good for us. And, at the price of gas these days (and we thought it was high in the 70's?!) well, I'm thinking we might want to get used to these more old fashioned transportation methods. In the meantime, I can write in my journal that I began my day with a 2 mile bike ride. Maybe tomorrow it will be a bit easier. One can only hope. I'm proud of myself for saving gas and exercising at the same time. If more people would live and work in small town's maybe the gas prices would be eliminated and we wouldn't have such ridiculous price gouging!