Countdown: ND-Day minus 7

The BLOGGING begins.  I have no clue how to do this but I'm determined to figure it out.  This is post #1 of "The Diary of a Non-Driver."  One week from tomorrow I will give up my car and become a non-driver.  For 365 days I will maintain that status....Non-driver.  No car.  No gasoline. No insurance.  No parking. No searching for parking spots. No parking tickets, etc. etc.

I reached this decision quite a few weeks ago - several months maybe. It came to me slowly but I was pumping gas into my car - my small car - when it really hit me and I came up with this fabulous idea.  GIVE UP THE CAR, STUPID.

Since that time I've announced my intentions to myriad people - friends, family, random folks in line at the grocery - and the enthusiasm is reassuring and comforting.  I have encountered a Doubting Debbie here and there.  "No way you'll last a year," and "You'll change your mind the first time it rains," are typical downer/doubter comments.  That's ok.  We'll just see how it goes.

For the next seven days I'll explore my feelings as I near ND-Day.  June 7 (strangely close to D-Day of days gone by) at 7:30 am is the exact time I will surrender my personal pod, my gas-slurping, air-polluting, money-draining potential killing machine.  In exchange I will reclaim my feet and my physical mobility.  I will quit the rat race and affirm my spot in that other race - the human race.

Goals and expectations to follow.