I absolutely love my commute. I drive about 6 miles and it usually takes less than 10 minutes. It typically features:
- A fast car
- An open sun roof
- Loud music
- A winding country road
- Open fields
- Mountains in the distance
- Wildlife (usually turkeys)
- Palm trees
- Typically sunshine (because it’s the South baby!)
It’s like a 10-minute vacation every morning and evening. Freedom to think and pray and dream. I almost wish it was a little longer.
I think I have the best commute in the world. How about you? Think yours is better? Tell me about your commute.
15 minutes. Average speed limit: 45 MPH. All traffic is going the other way.
Features? My cute, post-WWII neighborhood. River. Gorgeous, old, brick factory. A stretch of farmland peppered with deer. A down-hill stretch through thick, Midwest forest, which is completely gorgeous this time of year.
Downstairs to my kitchen table. It’s not bad.
While missing the country roads I have a commute that has one great thing. A stretch that is over Tampa Bay that is absolutely stunning especially at sunrise or sunset. Makes the worst days at the office melt away.
Salem NH to Boston Ma. (34 Miles)
45 min – 1hour in the morning but that is because I leave my house around 5:30 am. Any later and it would be 1.5 hours or more.
1:15 – 3 hours at night depending on the weather and time of year. Fridays are usually 1.5 to 2 hours because of traffic heading to the white mountians. If it snows or rains it just gets long.
I need a facility manager job in the Upstate! Know of any?
My office is just off our bedroom & my husband’s is downstairs in the basement – doesn’t get much better than that! :)
Mine takes about 10 minutes too (at most). Usually features:
Loud Music (alarm going off)
Fighting Traffic (my cats like to try and knock me over as soon as I step out of bed – since they think they haven’t eaten in weeks!)
Palm Trees and Sunlight (on the commute I usually take a detour to the back porch to breath in deep, glance at the sun rising and say Thanks to God for another day)
I work from a home office so while I’d like to pretend that my commute is interesting, it’s not. A simple walk to the front office. :)
My commute here in Cairo is about a mile and I do it on my bicycle. It features a ramp bridge over a railway line, a scattering of mosques, a synagogue, a couple of embassies, and LOTS of palm trees. I normally see plenty of birds including Hoopoe birds and Parrots, and of course lots of cats, construction sites, about twenty policemen, some predatory taxis circling the streets and best of all, only two speed bumps.
25 minutes from one island to another in charleston, sc. seeing the sun come up over the atlantic ocean while going over the bridge then hitting a 2 lane country road with trees canopying over the road as shelter. Windows down, music CRANKED and Jesus in my passenger set. Oh, the conversations!
Commute to office job: 3 1/3 minutes, about 14 blocks through a quaint little midwest town of 2,000 people.
Commute to church job: 5 to 6 minutes, back roads through the country with lots of farms and wildlife including deer, pheasant, oppossum, raccoons, hawks, etc.
Somedays I wish both of them were longer, but grateful to live so close to where I work. It is a blessing.
I agree! My commute is about a 1/2 mile less than yours. But I love it!
most mornings I hop on my scooter to meet someone at a coffee shop for a meeting. Then I operate from there until I go somewhere else to meet someone for lunch
Well your commute is much nicer than mine. 30 miles to work, always stuck behind the slowest car on the planet, smoke from factories, an empty fairgrounds (Unless it’s late August), snow for half of the year.
Commute to church is much better. 20 miles of country roads, beautiful foliage in the fall, the smell of the great outdoors.
15 to 20 depending on traffic. WT Harris Blvd. Charlotte. Bumper to Bumper. But at the end of the drive home is my wife, so it’s always worth it. However, the end of the drive there is school, which is only sometimes worth it. Hope all is well T-Mo, I am sending a hug via the internet.(Squeeeeeeeeeeeeze)
My commute involves…
*Sunshine almost every day
*Streets lined with desert Palms
*View of the Vegas Mountain Range and valley
*View of the Vegas Strip
I have to say the night scene gets even better…
*Add a beautiful western sunset
*And turn on the lights of Vegas
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when the weather allows….i walk a mile thru a neighborhood of remodeled turn of the century houses (and take a new street every day because every house is so unique!)
when it doesn’t, or i’m lazy, i drive a mile thru a neighborhood of remodeled turn of the century houses (and take a new street every day because every house is so unique!)
i think i have only filled up once a month since i moved to nashville!
It is a short commute at around 2 miles but is accompanied by the symphonic sounds of an Italian vee twin motorcycle. Unfortunately the temps are supposed to be below freezing tomorrow morning, so I will have to commute via the cage (car).
My commute is, oh, about 40 feet… out the backdoor, across the driveway, to my secluded “man cave” office. It’s where the magic happens. Save on gas, allows me to help with the 2 1/3 kids as I can, plus I get to eat lunch with my fam every day.
6 miles on bike. Most of it is on a bike path lined with trees. It’s fall and the leaves are turning. I have you beat… sorry.
Unitl next month and then it gets really cold and I start to wimp out and drive. :)
I have to walk uphill to work in 2 feet of snow, and bout 15 miles…my poor flip flops are nearly broken down because of it…it usually only takes me about 4 hours, but i guess i’m in good shape because of it
tommy, that commute is difficult, but it’s certainly worth it given the beautiful window view that you have from your desk.
tony
From my apartment across the street to the coffee house, or to the library, or downstairs to the desk with the imac, or to the restaurant for a meeting, or to the park to engage students with Christ, or…
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15 minutes, usually with the smooth sounds of sports talk radio on the fuzzy am radio or some sermon podcast.
It takes me 20 minutes (on a good day) to go 1.3 miles to our “office” (which is actually my teammates’ apartment)…10 minutes of that is on foot, 10 minutes is on bus, and sometimes there is up to 10 minutes of waiting at the bus stop. I start in Paris’ Chinatown and end up in the Latin Quarter. Paris is a beautiful city and there is usually something interesting that happens during my commute…what with over 2 million people in “centre ville”, not counting the nearly 10 million in the suburbs who might come into the city, things are never dull.