I should really learn to make one post replying to all lol. When I changed jobs to work closer to home, I really expected the amount I drove would drop quite a bit. But that was 4.5 years ago, so my boys were only 5&8 then. They'd just started wrestling and we didn't do a ton of tournaments then. Since then, they both are in football and wrestling. And I swear, every single wrestling tournament, both youth club and middle school, has been over an hour away. We've had many youth tournaments where they were 200+ miles away. So I've made up for my daily commute in sports miles lol. With a brief period in my early 20's, I've always lived in the country. Never with in walking distance of anything really. Heck, the nearest house to me growing up was a mile away. I'm not that rural now, but we have 13 acres and everyone around us has 5 or more acres. We live in the kind of rural area where 85% of the kids in the school district (752 kids K-12) are on gravel roads, so if it snows even a little, school is cancelled.