One of the great things about where we live in Silver Spring, Maryland, is that we are in a nice neighborhood within walking distance of work and the DC Metro train system.
When we moved here ten years ago, I began walking to work and arranging other aspects of life so I could do most things with minimum extra effort. I found a doctor in a building on the route to work. A dentist too, and a bank.
The doctor eventually moved, and I switched insurance plans, so now I have to drive to visit the doctor. But most of the other arrangements are still working.
This morning I headed out for work with a backpack full of the things I'd need over the next three days for a trip to North Carolina. I would head to the airport a little before noon.
Before that, I dropped off some outgoing mail in one of several mail boxes on the route to work, stopped by the bank to deposit a check and get some cash at the ATM about 4 steps off my direct path, and made a half block special diversion to a copy shop to make some color copies of a yoga flyer I'd printed.
Then I walked up the street to work, dropped the flyers off at the fitness center, and went upstairs to work for a few hours before heading back to the Metro station on the corner for the ride to the airport. I love it!
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