Kids, grocery stores and cargo bikes

Took Bree down to Central Market on the Xtracycle today.

I wasn't sure how well she would handle the trip, being an energetic three-year-old and all. Any concerns I had were of no account. She did great.

It wasn't a fast trip. Riding a cargo bike with a kid and groceries isn't conducive to going fast. But it was a fun trip. For kids, a little bit of adventure everyday is a good thing.

Which gets me to my next point. For most trips, bicycles are a superior form of transportation. If we had just gotten in the van or the car and driven, it would've been just another trip in the car or the van. Where is the fun in that? How does it make that little bit of my life more memorable? Five years from now, will she remember a single car trip or the time we rode the xtracycle down to the store?

We definitely need to become a two-Xtracycle family.