After an hour or so of power outage...

I have thought of riding to work. My fear is that the roads are pretty lousy (remember - I'm in Mississippi) and there are many large scary, bike chasing dogs between here and home. I've become pretty much completely paranoid about dogs after I was chased last Fall. It's all pretty much farmland with packs of dogs - seriously they run in packs of 4 or 5 around here. I'm going to drive the back way a couple of times and scope out the dog situation. As I said - I carpool. I could ride one way and ride in the car the other way.

Corsair - Good idea on the lunch rides - I only get a 1/2 hour for lunch, however we have very flexible schedules here and I could just work longer in the afternoon. We have nice roads around the research station (and only nice dogs). I might try to figure out a way to do the bike 1/2 way in thing, too.

I'm going to try to get the family (DH included) out with the trailer more this Spring. He also takes the kids out in the trailer during the day sometimes. That's how he finds time to ride. He's been really sweet about letting me ride in the afternoon.

Great advice y'all - thanks!