Last year I downsized from a full-size Isuzu Trooper 4x4 (bad gas
mileage) to a Subaru Forester...all wheel drive, smaller, great gas
mileage. I miss the extra room but I sure like the dependability,
performance, handling, gas economy and safety.

And Jim, I love that episode of ST.... in fact, I thought the same
thing...a themed geocache of rocks! Geez, I gotta get some different
hobbies.

Trisha "Lightning"
Prescott


On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 14:38:07 -0700 (MST), Jim Scotti wrote:

> 
> That's really the problem isn't it?  We all live in our western
> lifestyles
> where we live many miles from where we work.  It's one thing to hop
on
> a bike
> and go a mile or two to Safeway, but when you work 10 or more miles
> from
> home, you gotta burn the gas to get there.  Our cities have spread
out
> so
> that it is almost expected that you live in the 'burbs and work in
> town.
> 
> While I love my SUV, I really think maybe my next car will be a
Toyota
> Prius
> or some other energy efficient car.  But these small cars like the
> Prius just
> don't carry families very well yet.  Putting even one teenager in the
> backseat of a small car like that is not very fun.  And then there's
> the
> cargo issue.  And I love taking those unimproved dirt roads out to
> geocaches
> too....
> 
> Jim.
> 
> 
> On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Brian Casteel wrote:
> 
> > Yep, I'm in total agreement with you.  If I need to go to the
> grocery/video
> > store, I'll hop on the mtn bike and cruise up there.  If need be,
> I'll ride
> > up to Checker for stuff for my truck later, even though trying to
> cross
> > Apache Trail/Ellsworth on bike is akin to vehicular suicide.  :) 
> But I
> > wouldn't ride to work (32 miles one-way), I have to draw the line
> somewhere.
> > 
> > Brian
> > Team A.I.
> > 
> > 
> 
> Jim Scotti
> Lunar & Planetary Laboratory
> University of Arizona
> Tucson, AZ 85721 USA                
> http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~jscotti/    
> 
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