No good answers, although it's great that you're riding the kids to school! That's going to make an impact on them. Maybe they/you can work to start a club and get more kids riding. Develop some sort of a bicycle bus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bike_bus
20 min by car, but how long by bike, and what sort of a hill? Cheers, David "it isn't a contest. Just enjoy the ride." - Seth Vidal On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 8:05 PM, LeahFoy <jonasandle...@gmail.com> wrote: > We moved from beautiful Valencia, CA this summer to > less-but-still-beautiful NV. There were paseos that connected everything I > loved in Valencia, and I spent many happy miles on my Betty Foy frequenting > parks, favorite shopping districts and church. I even had another at-home > mom and her 2 kiddos to accompany me. My new home is up on a mountain, and > boasts no paseos. There is nothing but homes for miles and miles. It takes > 20min to get to the store by car. I'm able to bike to school with my boys, > but it is only 0.5 mile one way. Church is on school property, so I can > bike that same route 6 days per week, but it isn't enough. I miss bike > commuting because I love doing useful things on my bike - I don't like to > cruise with no place or plan in mind. I miss having another mom on my > adventures. I'm the only mother who bikes with her kids to school. There > are almost 1,000 students at school and there is one dad (mountain bike > with disc brakes) I see bike with his son most days. One mom I see on her > cruiser bike once every blue moon. It's lonely. And I don't think we'll be > moving again for several years. I have a beautiful Betty Foy that > practically begs to be ridden and I just don't get her out enough. I'm > grateful for the school commute, I just gotta figure out where else I can > go... I would guess some of you guys had times in your life where you had > to live in a less-than-bikey community. How did you deal? > > Thanks, Leah > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
