Streetcar - Pay as you go car rental

So at StreetCar you can rent a car by the hour. They've got 500 pickup locations (and I think this is just spots where parked on the side of the street). It's about 5.95 pounds ($12 an hour) for a Golf (Polo for 3.95) an hour or 49.50 pounds a day (and you get 30 miles of fuel). You must be a member for 50 pounds a year (show your OysterCard and get two memberships for the price of one).

Assuming you don't have a need for a car very often, this is economical and ecological: you don't need to pay for a car or insurance or parking, except for the times you need it; it's such a waste otherwise if you don't use it often. You don't need to maintain it or anything like that. If I lived somewhere like London I would only need it a time or two a week (at the most), maybe big shopping trips.

This is very cool IMHO, this is the idea of of Sci-Fi/Future Utopian stories. Every shares a car or bicycles and has great public transportation. This is very unlike Michigan with poor public transportation and everyone owns a car (or two).

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The Long Trip Home.

It's been a very long flight and we took off late so we're going to get in late. They were having problems with one of the bathrooms and they tried fixing it, then they gave up and had to drain the tanks(?) and that took more time. The long bathroom lines are annoying slow but at least they're moving. The flight home was already eight hours and fifty minutes; I'm glad it was a direct flight, I'm not sure how it's affecting the the people with connecting flights.

Saw some cool ice "stuff" while flying, not sure if it was part of Greenland or something else, it was a huge massive land formation that was all while and looked like it was ice.

I've got a bunch of other entries and posts that I still have to put on-line (or finish and put on-line still) so they'll be more to come on-line....

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Photos of Cardiff

So I've got a few photos that I put together from Cardiff City Center. I'm not sure if the castle is technically in the city center or not but I including those few anyways. There are captions on a few of the photos.

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