Originally Posted by
tjspiel
First of all, rides that aren't to and from work, aren't commuting. That said, you can take a long way home and it would count in my book.
There is an easy answer to how you should proceed. When you're 80 or 90 years old and looking back on your life, what will you wish you would have done?
How important is this goal in the larger scheme of things? What sorts of things would you do with that vacation time?
Exactly. Can't see myself giving the little vacation time I have. I spend half of my wake time at work!
However, if the OP has some serious issues, if reaching this commuting miles goal is a way of motivating himself to overcome those (whatever that might be - health, self discipline, you name it) - then, by all means go for it. If it's of any help, I'm all for letting him count vacation miles as a commute, changing the mileage thread rules in this one case.
