Comments on: Strap a Tree on Your Back http://davetroy.com/posts/strap-a-tree-on-your-back Design, Entrepreneurship, Economics and Software Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:43:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: mindgrub http://davetroy.com/posts/strap-a-tree-on-your-back#comment-631 mindgrub Sat, 02 Jan 2010 18:31:35 +0000 http://davetroy.com/?p=832#comment-631 Dave, that is awesome. Except I usually take our truck for hauling such things :) My car actually died getting to Tom Loveland’s this summer and I had to push it the last quarter mile – d!oh. I remember you were sleep deprived from having just gotten back from TED and mentioned riding your bike from London to Oxford. I grew up riding a bike miles as a kid, and since my car had just failed me, I then secretly committed to switching to a bike as my primary transportation. I am happy to say that I have been doing so ever since. <br><br>I haven’t had to go to downtown Baltimore since it started snowing, though being cold for longer probably beats having to switch into a backpacked suit when you’re sweaty in summer, but I go the 8 miles from Oella to my office in Catonsville and back daily. I have also starting using the Baltimore bus system and can get to the MARC, Amtrak or BWI with the addition of only 4 miles when I need to. <br><br>The 10 minutes longer it takes me to commute has cut out 5-10 hours at the gym each week. And the cost savings is something else. It saves 4 tanks of gas, countless parking fees, payments, insurance. Hundreds monthly I can reinvest.<br><br>If only we could all work closer to home, use local stores, and move our money from too big to fail banks to the local banks on Main Street. Circumnavigate the bobble-headed politicians. Skip the beltway, ditch fossil fuels, prop up main street, save the earth, all by relatively simple individual daily changes. The tree on your back is classic. Dave, that is awesome. Except I usually take our truck for hauling such things :) My car actually died getting to Tom Loveland’s this summer and I had to push it the last quarter mile – d!oh. I remember you were sleep deprived from having just gotten back from TED and mentioned riding your bike from London to Oxford. I grew up riding a bike miles as a kid, and since my car had just failed me, I then secretly committed to switching to a bike as my primary transportation. I am happy to say that I have been doing so ever since.

I haven’t had to go to downtown Baltimore since it started snowing, though being cold for longer probably beats having to switch into a backpacked suit when you’re sweaty in summer, but I go the 8 miles from Oella to my office in Catonsville and back daily. I have also starting using the Baltimore bus system and can get to the MARC, Amtrak or BWI with the addition of only 4 miles when I need to.

The 10 minutes longer it takes me to commute has cut out 5-10 hours at the gym each week. And the cost savings is something else. It saves 4 tanks of gas, countless parking fees, payments, insurance. Hundreds monthly I can reinvest.

If only we could all work closer to home, use local stores, and move our money from too big to fail banks to the local banks on Main Street. Circumnavigate the bobble-headed politicians. Skip the beltway, ditch fossil fuels, prop up main street, save the earth, all by relatively simple individual daily changes. The tree on your back is classic.

]]> By: mindgrub http://davetroy.com/posts/strap-a-tree-on-your-back#comment-612 mindgrub Sat, 02 Jan 2010 13:31:35 +0000 http://davetroy.com/?p=832#comment-612 Dave, that is awesome. Except I usually take our truck for hauling such things :) My car actually died getting to Tom Loveland’s this summer and I had to push it the last quarter mile – d!oh. I remember you were sleep deprived from having just gotten back from TED and mentioned riding your bike from London to Oxford. I grew up riding a bike miles as a kid, and since my car had just failed me, I then secretly committed to switching to a bike as my primary transportation. I am happy to say that I have been doing so ever since. <br><br>I haven’t had to go to downtown Baltimore since it started snowing, though being cold for longer probably beats having to switch into a backpacked suit when you’re sweaty in summer, but I go the 8 miles from Oella to my office in Catonsville and back daily. I have also starting using the Baltimore bus system and can get to the MARC, Amtrak or BWI with the addition of only 4 miles when I need to. <br><br>The 10 minutes longer it takes me to commute has cut out 5-10 hours at the gym each week. And the cost savings is something else. It saves 4 tanks of gas, countless parking fees, payments, insurance. Hundreds monthly I can reinvest.<br><br>If only we could all work closer to home, use local stores, and move our money from too big to fail banks to the local banks on Main Street. Circumnavigate the bobble-headed politicians. Skip the beltway, ditch fossil fuels, prop up main street, save the earth, all by relatively simple individual daily changes. The tree on your back is classic. Dave, that is awesome. Except I usually take our truck for hauling such things :) My car actually died getting to Tom Loveland’s this summer and I had to push it the last quarter mile – d!oh. I remember you were sleep deprived from having just gotten back from TED and mentioned riding your bike from London to Oxford. I grew up riding a bike miles as a kid, and since my car had just failed me, I then secretly committed to switching to a bike as my primary transportation. I am happy to say that I have been doing so ever since.

I haven’t had to go to downtown Baltimore since it started snowing, though being cold for longer probably beats having to switch into a backpacked suit when you’re sweaty in summer, but I go the 8 miles from Oella to my office in Catonsville and back daily. I have also starting using the Baltimore bus system and can get to the MARC, Amtrak or BWI with the addition of only 4 miles when I need to.

The 10 minutes longer it takes me to commute has cut out 5-10 hours at the gym each week. And the cost savings is something else. It saves 4 tanks of gas, countless parking fees, payments, insurance. Hundreds monthly I can reinvest.

If only we could all work closer to home, use local stores, and move our money from too big to fail banks to the local banks on Main Street. Circumnavigate the bobble-headed politicians. Skip the beltway, ditch fossil fuels, prop up main street, save the earth, all by relatively simple individual daily changes. The tree on your back is classic.

]]> By: What biking has taught me about business « Sam Aparicio http://davetroy.com/posts/strap-a-tree-on-your-back#comment-608 What biking has taught me about business « Sam Aparicio Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:12:52 +0000 http://davetroy.com/?p=832#comment-608 [...] an overweight dude who picks up biking to get fit. I’m glad to see that it’s a trend among techies. Our 100% sedentary jobs and our natural inclination for things intellectual makes it [...] [...] an overweight dude who picks up biking to get fit. I’m glad to see that it’s a trend among techies. Our 100% sedentary jobs and our natural inclination for things intellectual makes it [...]

]]> By: Jared Goralnick http://davetroy.com/posts/strap-a-tree-on-your-back#comment-607 Jared Goralnick Mon, 14 Dec 2009 04:07:30 +0000 http://davetroy.com/?p=832#comment-607 Dave, you're one of the few people where probably every single one of the people on their thank you list would thank them equally or more for an amazing 2009.<br><br>Let me be the first. Dave, you're one of the few people where probably every single one of the people on their thank you list would thank them equally or more for an amazing 2009.

Let me be the first.

]]> By: ednacz http://davetroy.com/posts/strap-a-tree-on-your-back#comment-605 ednacz Sun, 13 Dec 2009 01:29:07 +0000 http://davetroy.com/?p=832#comment-605 this is so awesome! happy holidays to you and your family from PA and best wishes for an amazing 2010 this is so awesome! happy holidays to you and your family from PA and best wishes for an amazing 2010

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