Commutes
August 10, 2017Today I had my first bike commute since living in California. It was much longer than that one at just over 6 miles each way. The California bike commute to Viddy was just over a mile. Hard to really compare the two.
Since it was much longer, I had a chance to think about all of the commutes I’ve had. And working for different clients at Rocket makes me think that I’m all the more likely to have a variety of commutes coming up.
Here they are, each way as approximations, and as I can best remember, in chronological order since college:
- 45 minute drive
- work from home
- 20 minute drive
- work from home
- 15 minute drive, 45 minute commuter train, 15 minute subway
- 15 minute subway
- 20 minute subway
- 20 minute subway (again)
- 20 minute subway with the occasional 45 minute bus and 5 minute subway (this was when dealing with the apartment fire, a lot was going on then)
- 20 minute subway
- 20 minute subway
- 20 minute subway
- 20 minute subway (this might be a pattern)
- 10 minute bike ride
- 20 minute drive
- work from the van
- work from home
- 10 minute drive, 30 minute train, 30 minute walk (this works for going to the office or my first client, just in different directions) or 15 minute run, 30 minute train, 15 minute run or 50 minute drive
- 10 minute drive or 40 minute bike ride (this is now)
This really makes me realize that everywhere on Manhattan seems to be about a 20 minute subway ride. Why were there so many changes even though the commute was the same? I lived in three different apartments, one of them twice. Initially I was subletting for just a month, and then the place I moved to had a fire, so I moved to a third apartment and then back. Additionally, I had two different jobs that both moved once. It was a tumultuous three years now that I look back at it.
What I realized is also how little driving there really was in my commutes. Other than the first one, the rest of the driving happened for just a little while during some transition period.
I’m also glad that I’ve got to keep my commutes so green. Even if it’s just a drop in the bucket.
