Final Mileage Figures
The final day of my eight weeks was this past Saturday and I thought I would post a quick update about how I did with my mileage goal. At the end of the eight weeks I had a reading of 166,495 miles on my odometer. That means that I drove 428 miles since starting out the project at 166,067 miles. I carpooled for approximately 292 of these miles (this isn’t quite true since sometimes I had three people in my car, but it’s a pretty close estimate), netting me 146 miles in carpool credit for a final mileage of 282 miles, which is about 40 miles below my goal of 320.
Most of my mileage was spent either going to meet friends at places difficult to reach via public transportation, picking up and dropping off people at the airport, and driving to stores when I planned on buying unwieldy things. I also took some fairly long walks during the eight weeks, including a trek with my sister from Hillcrest through Balboa Park to downtown, and a 10 mile hike with a friend from my house up to UCSD, down La Jolla Shores Drive to La Jolla and ultimately all the way through La Jolla to Pacific Beach. It’s actually pretty entertaining to ogle all the things you don’t normally notice when you’re driving through an area.
March 11th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
I enjoy the difference in perspectives that you can get on a place by walking instead of driving (or by driving instead of walking). There’s a third modality that I’ve found to be quite different from the other two : biking. All three ways of getting around tend to reveal differences in the places where we live. Somehow I’d like to tie this in with the notion of affordances, but maybe I should keep it short.