I've Blown it Already

Already on January 2nd, I had to drive by myself in a vehicle about 2 miles.  I guess technically, I had to carry cargo, which currently my bicycle or public transportation could not easily accommodate.  I was brewing beer with my friend Jay, and as part of the process you have to rapidyl cool down the conncoction from a boiling temperature to room termperature, so I needed a cooler full of ice.  I drove about 1 mile to pick up ice and back home again.

How could I have solved this problem differently?  Well there do exist cargo traillers for bicycles but they are not that common in this country.  I certainly could not go to my local bicycle shop and purchase one, but they could probably order one for me.  A lot of people use more common kid hauling traillers as double duty to haul other things as well.  That might be a good solution that can allow me to haul my son around too.

Needless to say,  I broke my own rules already, but I didn’t have much of a choice given what I wanted to do.  I could have not brewed beer, but that doesn’t seem like a good alternative.  I will begin shopping around for a trailer to solve this and similar cargo problems in the future.