I have the tendency to not use a car, but rather walk. West Texas sun is usually not your friend when you are exposed to it (save sun tanners). So being immersed in it while walking can be aggravating at times.
This aside I still walk everywhere. West Texas is stretched out. It seems that city planers took space, multiplied it by some number (greater than 10) and then started planning out the city. Because of this, a walk is not a quick thing. The average time it takes me to get from my house to school is around 16 minutes.
Wow, 16 minutes of straight walking. Well when fist starting to do this I did not like it at all because of the monotonous path that I had to walk.
But one night while walking home I was preparing for a speech I had to give the next day. Well it took the entire walk home to finish going through this speech.
What I realized about a month later was that these walks were times to use to pure thinking. There are no other distractions, no breathtaking scenery or architecture or even people. Just the flat plains to let my mind unravel upon.
I now see a strange benefit of the walks, and that although long, hot and windy they provide an isolated time for pure thinkign and concentration of ideas, void of distractions.