Well done Sara for taking the plunge and just doing it!

I really enjoy commuting - its a great way to start the day, and I feel smugly satisfied in my own fitness (compared to my colleagues) and my greeness in not helping to fill the carpark with another gas guzzler!

I take it you negotiated the highway ok then??? Was that the "scarey intersection" you refer too?

LOL - like you, tjf and onimity I get offered rides, and incredulous looks that I commute on a bike "that" far (its only 24km each way). I point out it takes me 25 minutes to get to work in a car and on a good day with a tail wind only 40 minutes on my bike.

(I neglect to mention it takes me twice as long to get home - 600 metres above sea level - work is at sea level)

WOOHOO Sara! So begins the affair!