How can it be the last day of February already? Where did the month go? I know it's shorter than the rest, but this one was exceedingly shorter than usual. I've been here 7 weeks now. How did that happen? If time flies when you're having fun then I must be having a giant blast! Oh wait, I am having a blast. No wonder it's flying.
I was leasing a car, but it was outrageous money and most days it sat in the driveway. My original plan was to pay outrageous money to a national company based out of Portland when I first got here because it was convenient (convenient to the airport and allowing me time to search for a cheaper one and if I found one outside of Portland, then arranging for transportation to and from the lease car place). But I've moved on from that plan to my new plan: no car. Yep. I'm not going to have a car at all. I'd say it would be better for me because I'll walk more, but I was already pretty much walking everywhere all the time. I turned in the lease car at the airport when I left for Winter Break on the 17th and MRM and RBF picked me up when I got back to town on the 24th.
There's a rent car place on the outskirts of town that I figured I could rent one for a day or a weekend. There's a taxi service in town (one man, one car) that another faculty member used when she had surgery on her knee and couldn't drive. She highly recommended him. That will take care of trips to the big grocery store or when I buy cases of bottled water. I figured lots of taxi rides and many one- to three- day rentals would still add up to less than one outrageously expensive lease car.
I'm on Day 4 with no car . . . no signs of withdrawal yet; though it is an odd feeling to not have one at my beck and call. Oooh, this plans for planning ahead. I guess that will be good for me, too.
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