Great job asking hard questions! The school rides sound like a great start.
Cultivate contentment. A funny thing happens when I shift from being frustrated with a situation to being content with the wonders and gifts I have in that situation. I start to see options, ways and means, that had not occurred to me before. Are there parks in the area? Coffee shops? Bike rack and hit a remote dirt road and explore? Take a wandering ride and explore down the hill a bit. not all the way, but enough to wander. You might be surprised what you discover from a bike that you miss from a car. Read Yehuda Moon and Kickstand Cyclery: http://yehudamoon.com (he has a series on biking to school you'll find all too true and hilarious). There is abundance all around you, the challenge is to unwrap it even though it looks different that what you would love it to be. Let us know how you get on! Oh, and anything using your Rivendell is not abuse, it's use, so no qualms from me on piling them all in a jumble in the back of your van. With abandon, Patrick On Saturday, January 25, 2014 10:18:32 PM UTC-7, LeahFoy wrote: > > Bicycle bus - your comment was the second time I've heard it mentioned! > The principal has been trying to get parents to create bicycle buses and > walk to school - to no avail. We brave the streets when we can and take the > sidewalk (legal here) when we can't - which is frequently because everyone > drives and the sidewalks are free and clear! I'd love to join up with a > bicycle bus. Would be difficult to organize here, but maybe! > > The trip into "town" and back would take most of a day on bike. It is > smooth sailing downhill, but holy smokes, getting home would be awful. Even > if I could manage it, it would be a lot of suffering. Definitely a no-go > with kiddos. I would like to get a bike rack for the van and maybe find > other venues to cycle in on weekends as a family. We actually did go to > Hoover Dam today with the bikes shoved in the back of the van and it was > good. But I didn't even dare take a pic for this group - it was too > shameful the way that classy Betty was being transported. Hubby's classless > Target Special with the crooked handlebars and wobbly rear wheel was > rubbing against her something awful. I'd have been banned from the list for > Rivendell abuse for sure. > -- 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.
