The quickest by car is around 58 miles roundtrip. The nearest bus stop is 12 miles away in the next town/county. If my wife drops me off, then that's like a savings of like 10 miles a day off of the total car mileage. If I drove myself to the nearest bus stop, then I would be putting 24-25 miles a day on the car. My original plan is to ride bus/bus to work, then bus/bike back to the car. That would be about 8 miles on a rail-trail. Eventually, I'd like to leave the car at home and just ride the 12 miles to the bus stop (along SH 97, a 4 lane, divided, wide shoulders, relatively low traffic, gently rolling hills). If I leave the car out of the equation, then my r/t time would be 6-7 hrs a day (unacceptable to the wife, but doable as I only work p/t now...), that's taking both buses each way. But I figure I could shave that a little by trying to not take at least one of those buses each way.