Comments on: Keeping it Green – Reducing my Carbon Footprint http://vvrotny.org/2008/04/21/keeping-it-green-reducing-my-carbon-footprint/ Thoughts and Reflections from Vinnie Vrotny Sat, 22 Oct 2011 15:53:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Cathy Nelson http://vvrotny.org/2008/04/21/keeping-it-green-reducing-my-carbon-footprint/comment-page-1/#comment-531 Cathy Nelson Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:23:06 +0000 http://vvrotny.edublogs.org/2008/04/21/keeping-it-green-reducing-my-carbon-footprint/#comment-531 Vinnie, my son is living in Chicago, and this summer we moved him from a dorm to an apartment near the campus. LOL we drove a Uhaul all the way from SC (looked like country bumpkin first cousins to the Hillbilly Clampets. We had planned to rent a car once we turned in the truck, but my son convinced us it would be more economical to take the transit everywhere. So reluctantly we bought a seven day pass. I had envisioned the transit to be for hoodlums, hookers, and homeless people, but was pleasantly surprised to see all walks of people, many professionals, and even using the trains and buses. I had a very wrong idea of what it was like (of course living in the south, I'd never really experienced it before.) After spending 7 days there and using the transit system for all travel, I was so sore (from climbing up and down train/subway platforms.) But i can see where city folks can be physically fit from all the walking and climbing done to get from one place to another. It made me sort of long for that here, where I find it so easy to drive from school to store to home, etc. It really makes me feel a little guilty. Good luck in your quest to be environmentally friendly. Vinnie, my son is living in Chicago, and this summer we moved him from a dorm to an apartment near the campus. LOL we drove a Uhaul all the way from SC (looked like country
bumpkin first cousins to the Hillbilly Clampets.

We had planned to rent a car once we turned in the truck, but my son convinced us it would be more economical to take the transit everywhere. So reluctantly we bought a seven day pass. I had envisioned the transit to be for hoodlums, hookers, and homeless people, but was pleasantly surprised to see all walks of people, many professionals, and even using the trains and buses.

I had a very wrong idea of what it was like (of course living in the south, I’d never really experienced it before.) After spending 7 days there and using the transit system for all travel, I was so sore (from climbing up and down train/subway platforms.) But i can see where city folks can be physically fit from all the walking and climbing done to get from one place to another.

It made me sort of long for that here, where I find it so easy to drive from school to store to home, etc. It really makes me feel a little guilty. Good luck in your quest to be environmentally friendly.

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