Downhill all the way home

Technically my bike ride home has ups and downs, but it is predominantly downhill which makes it easier and faster than the trip to work.  Yesterday I biked to work, but walked to my Transportation Commission meeting afterwards and accepted a carpool ride home for 3 more miles by car bringing my total to 5 miles for the month.  It's all been carpooling (4 people in the car) but I think I will wait to the end of the month to divide carpool miles by 2 since that was not the way I calculated my target miles to begin with.  So this morning I walked Billy to school for his last day of kindergarden and then hopped on the bus for the ride to my office  where my bike spent the night and is waiting for me to ride home tonight.  Billy was very happy to get to ride his bike to school yesterday.  I expect he will want to do it more next year.  If anyone has tips on where to get a "tow bar" device to connect his bike to the back of mine, I would like to try that since it should help him break his reliance on training wheels.

The nice part about a predominantly downhill trip is that it makes my bike travel time comprable to driving a car.  On a recent trip home, I noticed that every time I coasted to a stop at a red light, I passed the same car in vehicle queue that had center street at the same time I did.  The light would turn green and the car would eventually pass me on an uphill section, but once I go to Marin Avenue which is a mil and a half downhill, I passed the car and it never caught up.  So on that trip I saved gas and time by riding a bike instead of driving a car.