Walking

This is a pretty cool tool: Walkscore. Measure the walkability of your neighborhood.

Ours is an 85 out of 100. Pretty good, I think.

Chicago is ranked the 4th most Walkable City in the United States. Philadelphia is number 5; Columbus 27. Which makes me feel bad for every city 28+ because I very rarely walked in Columbus. Once I tried to walk to the supermarket kitty corner from my apartment and discovered that there weren't really sidewalks but muddy gullies and not really great crosswalks. But my neighborhoood was only 15th within the city anyway.

The less that I drive, the happier I am. Even before gas prices got ridiculous. Even before I had a big surgery boot on my foot that has to be exchanged for an equally dorky but smaller boot for driving.