Yep, when you ride a scooter to work, well they just won't go the same route a car goes.
3.2 miles here by car - 16 by scoot. I used to feel a little silly when the joggers watch me pass them going in 2 directions 20 mins apart - but then I thought, "shoot, it's pitch dark, they can't really see me in this helmet"
You see, 16 miles would take me way out in the boonies - so I do a 'double back'. (have been known to circle the same neighborhood 3 to 5 times; it must be an odd number or you'll end up back in your driveway and your wife wil have to call you in 'sick')
Have learned that at 37 degrees your chin and neck will freeze on a scoot - this almost never happened in my car.
Will buy one of those bank robber things before fall.