Mobility

There is a cool service offered here. You can read more about it at http://www.mobility.ch. If you purchase an ID card, you can find a car anywhere in town they park these cars, scan your card on the reader inside the car, and if it is not already reserved, you just get in and drive it. Kris has done this twice, once was today. She drove us to Sarah's birthday party (her birthday was almost a month ago but she teamed up on partying with a friend also having a birthday in February) at an indoor swimming park.

Sitting in this car, with my wife driving (and the occasional whiplash and white knuckles) gave me the appreciation of driving a car in Switzerland. Up until now, I hadn't thought much about it. Our contract is one year, why bother? Well, living without a car for the past 6 months has been an eye-opener on what is possible without one, and what is not possible without one. We'll give this some more thought if our contract conditions change, and we find ourselves planning to stay longer, but how cool it was to drive around with a sense of freedom and possibility again. My first words to Kris were: "Europe seems easier now. Might be nice to see some of it."