A lot of people don't change their route much at all, and it seems like most of the rest don't do it very often, or usually while running errands, etc. This doesn't surprise me, but I'm maybe a little surprised at why. It seems like it's mostly to do with having other things we all need to spend our time on. Not so much on my commute, but on other rides I take, there are a lot of gardens; I like seeing the different plants flower, and how that all changes. That's more important to me in the bleak early spring, when there isn't much growing, and I chance upon a splash of color in an otherwise gray world. But I enjoy watching the longer-term changes over the course of the year, in spots I keep going by. I'm surprised nobody else has mentioned that, as a reason for keeping the same route.

I don't change mine as often as I'd like to, and I'm not really sure why. I think if a better idea doesn't come to me, it's easy enough to "fall back on" my default route. But I do like to explore, especially when I can go down a street I haven't been on before. I like the stimulation of seeing something new, and the exercise for my brain of constantly navigating the city, updating my map, etc.