I work from home, so I like to think of myself as being fairly eco-friendly when it comes to the amount of driving I do. In fact, my husband sees the every-3,000-mile oil change as something of a religion, and just this weekend he told me that in checking my car, he’d discovered that I’ve only driven 2,400 miles in the last eight months.

(For what it’s worth, I then told him I was pretty sure I’d driven 1,400 of those taking the kids to and from the orthodontist. My son is the king of the broken wire. Ahem.)

So I’m off the hook when it comes to reducing dependence on automobiles, right? Well… maybe not. I was just reading the car-free blog challenge issued over at BlogHer, and it’s gotten me thinking. Even with as little driving as I do, it’s not as though I utilize alternate transportation methods. I never take the bus. We don’t live close enough to anything useful (like the grocery store) for me to bike easily. Or maybe I’m just being a wimp.

Could you go without a car for a week? Reading through the links on the post above, I’m sort of wondering if it only “works” for folks in big cities. But maybe I just need to think a little more creatively. Or bike a little further.