How do you gals say "No" to visiting friends who live remotely and can only be (realistically) visited by car? (The ones I can visit by bike are a different story...I can make a fun, epic riding day out of that.)

I hate, hate, hate, spending life energy in the car. Visiting a friend for 2 hours, when I have to drive an hour each way (and that's if there is no traffic!), just frustrates the daylights out of me.

I'd like to tell people I'm going car-lite, and that if they live far away I'm simply not going to visit them very often. But it's hard to figure out how to say that without them taking it personally.

- Mariposa