On Saturday I drove 150 miles: in my own car. A good friend of mine got married. I had to get out to his wedding. It was, most likely, a funny image, what with me limping down the turnpike at 55 mph.

Today I drove to work. My bike was in the shop. A spoke fell out. For some reason I don’t have a multi-tool to fix that myself.

So, where does that leave me? I took last week to sort out what I wanted to do. I was leaning towards selling the car. Your answers to my survey helped lock in my decision: sell the car.

This week I am going to spend my time calling around and figuring out what my options are. I don’t expect I’ll be getting too much money for the car, but hey, you never know.

The subject of this post is a question. Am I falling back into my old ways? Am I giving up on the carless experiment? It’s not for you to answer; it’s for me to answer. My answer is “no.” I am not. I have a few reasons why I can say this.

1. It was like pulling teeth for me to finally own up to the fact that I was going to have to drive to the wedding. Also, I am disappointed that I drove to work. I hate that I am going to have to put gas in my car for the first time in over a month. These negative emotions let me know that I am still moving towards getting rid of the car.
2. This morning when I was getting ready for work I starting gearing up for my bike ride. Then I suddenly realized that I didn’t even have my bike! When people invite me to things my first thought is, how am I going to get there without my car? That means my habits are being built around the new ways: which is the car-free lifestyle.
3. Most importantly, the ideal of being car-free is appealing to me. It’s still worth going for.

I am ashamed to have a blog called “Going Carless.” I need to hurry up and get rid of my car in order to build up my credibility again. But the way I see it, in every good story the protagonist has a setback. It builds tension and helps you get more interested in his or her plight. I see this, you know, car as a minor setback on the road to carlessness. We’ll take this as part of the experiment. The transition from having a car to being completely car-free. Isn’t that what this blog is ultimately about? Helping people know what to expect in all aspects of going carless, including: unloading the vehicle.

Any ideas about how to unload said vehicle? Put it in the classifieds? Call junk yards? It’s drivable. It’s just not 100%.