A human-powered lifestyle....

I enjoyed living in uptown Shelby – able to walk to work, bike to the store, walk to church, run to Joe's….

Yet my job involved driving everywhere and being ready at a moment’s notice to drive anywhere, so I wasn’t always able to get in as much healthy and environmentally-friendly transportation as I’d have liked.

But at UNC-Chapel Hill, where I’m getting ready to spend a few years, parking is a horror and walking and cycling are a way of life. By the time I could have found a parking garage or waited for a bus… I could have hopped on my bike and been there. When I start to mentally math out how much walking I did my first two years between where I lived on South Campus and Franklin Street, around a mile away… I got a lot of exercise!

Later on I moved closer to the main campus and got a bike, but I still got in plenty of work zooming around Chapel Hill. Just getting to class each day is enough of a workout to keep you in pretty good shape.

June 29th I’m taking off with my folks to spend several weeks visiting family in Germany in a town that involves a lot of walking.

I’m looking forward.