May 06, 2009 12:01 pm
by Scott Schrantz
Chuck Taylor expains, in great detail, why if you actually want to get anywhere in town, on any kind of a schedule, you don’t take the bus.
By this point I’m pretty resigned to the fact I won’t make the ferry and try to relax. My stop on Third Avenue, the six blocks up the hill from the ferry dock, will be the fifth one the bus makes downtown. This will, of course, take forever. And I do miss the boat, probably by about 10 minutes. I call my friends and head for the bar. The next boat is in 55 minutes, at 4:40. I arrive on Bainbridge Island at 5:15 p.m. Elapsed time from home: not quite three hours. Miles traveled, including the ferry: about 14.
I could have swum it faster.
A commenter made the point: this is why you ride a bike.
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