Originally Posted by ro-monster

I ride my bike or walk to work. (It's 2 or 3 miles, depending on which route I take.) My commute is one of the nicest parts of my day; I can use a path through wetlands and see egrets, herons, and ducks; I can watch the sunrise. Tandempower is right about things looking vastly different from another perspective. There's even a noticeable difference between biking and walking.

Yet people at work are always trying to get me to carpool with co-workers (two of them live across the street from me so it would be easy enough to do). They don't seem capable of understanding that someone would choose not to go by car if that was available to them. After years of biking and walking, I find that I've come to really dislike riding in cars; not only is it stressful, but it distances you from your surroundings, and I find that sense of muted experience and isolation disturbing now.