Help!: [Sink] Preferences - Basic Setup

I ride a bike. I do chemotherapy. When I don't ride, I ride the bus. I get bus routes from Metro Transit here in Minneapolis. So, 'buses' no problem. Bikes? Well, there seem to be issues.

I decided to join here. I need to ride over to Kowalski's Market in Uptown, tonight and I know the route, but wanted to see a more direct route.

 First, I get an 'as the crow flies' route. If I was a bird, I'd have it made.

But I ride a bike.

So, try again, I get a route that includes driving down the freeway.  Pardon me, but, that sounds dangerous, or maybe it's okay here in Minesota. I'm new here.

At one point, by a fluke, I got the route from my home to Kowalski's market, but the mileage measurements were notated as if I was leaving the store, riding home, and winding up back at the store. I should have left it at that.

Too late for this trip, but I have a suggestion. it's about Personal Profiles, and it goes like this:

I choose Bike Rides, let's say, as MY default. Hey, and I choose my HOME, as the starting point default. See where I'm headed here? Usefulness, logic. The site is a great idea. It kinda kills me that when I launch the site it 'jumps' to my Home, but if I'm looking at the map and try to get it to either 'jump' to my destination OR my home, it hangs up. 

How can it NOT find the same address once the program loads, that it automatically opened up to, on launch? I must have been smoking in the boys' room when we had that in 'Programming'.

I realize it is easier, or, only possible, to manually put the start icon on my little nearly translucent 'home' graphic (because the 'default' for "Home" is forgotten on login) every time I make a new 'route', and then if I click at a destination there must be some step involved to not get the bird's flight path, or the bloody Freeway as a route.

Thanks for any help. As for now, off to Kowalski's. I told a couple buds, back in California, that it was 'about' a 5-mile roundtrip. Apparently it is 4.78 miles. Not too shabby for a wild guess, no?

I realize I'm in a weird mood right now. It's the chemo. I don't run because I almost lost my right leg, fifteen years ago, in Montreal. 5 weeks in the ICU, 18 operations, including the first 14 hour surgery, by a genius, and I walked out of the hospital, three months later. But I need all the excuses I can muster to get more exercise.

Oh, and the chemo? Hep-C from tainted Canadian Red Cross blood.  I didn't take part in the Class Action (they no longer distribut blood, either) because the people at the Royal Vic saved my life (them and the machines, the boxes brought me back to life about 12-15 times in the first couple weeks) and they saved my leg, also, which mattered then, because walking down the street with my little daughter on my shoulders was my idea of 'fun' in those days.

I was grateful to them, and I'll be grateful for some advice here. Thank you.

Brian in Minneapolis