Operation: Liberation!: It's a good time to be less reliant on my car.

The State at the Pump: U-District.

I mean, really, did I time my Low Gas Consumption month perfectly, or what?

Gas prices aside, I should also note that the weather in Seattle has improved since the first week of April. Not a wild improvement, but I did hear the weatherman say that La Nina is WEAKENING, and to expect a "weather-neutral summer." I can get behind that.

Because the sky was more sunny than cloudy today, I decided to make the most of my leisure Sunday morning and walk to the yoga studio where I've been doing an immersion all weekend. Which is located on Capitol Hill. Five miles from my place. Apparently, I don't need to drive to the mountains to get in a nice little hike.

And it was a really nice walk. As I walked, I recalled a college assignment from a Renaissance and Reformation history class I took at the University of Idaho. We had to walk from Moscow, ID to Troy, ID--an 11-mile distance--and then write a three-page paper about our experience. I think the assignment was part of a unit on The Return of Martin Guerre; the professor wanted us to have a sense of how peasants traveled in the 16th century, or something. Honestly, it was a somewhat useless assignment, but I remember it was a really lovely day when I did the walk. I remember being a little scared of getting hit by a car when walking along Highway 8 (I think there is actually a bike trail now), but all and all, it was a nice way to pass the morning. But not something you do everyday.

I'm not going to write a three-page paper about my walk today, because I think that I'd say about the same thing: nice way to pass my morning, but not something I can do everyday. So, instead of writing three-pages, here's a little photo essay of my walk today!