I've been talking about it for six months, and I finally did it! 12 miles round trip, many hills, scary intersections, but I did it! Took me an hour to get to work, but about 45 minutes to get home. I was a little braver on the trip home, the sun was setting and I wanted to get home before dark! I took lanes:)
When riding up those hills I wished so bad for a cooler bike. I have a comfort bike, with no gears or brakes. (Other than to push your pedals backward.) But I do have a headlight, and rear blinking light and smaller lights blinking on the spokes, plus my helmet has a blinking light so I felt pretty good, even as the light was falling about not being smushed:)
I only had one person be a dickhead, and everyone else was really great. What has consistently surprised me is how much people really go out of their way to avoid you.
I'm just so happy that I accomplished this. Six months ago I would have thought it impossible. Oh, and OUCH! lol:)