The "walking" part of bus walking ...

I strolled up to my bus stop this morning, took one look at the traffic on the main road, and knew I wasn't getting a bus anytime soon.

What a mess! I mean yeah, there's always more traffic headed into town than out -- I have a "reverse commute" so my bus rides to work are usually smooth sailing -- but this was something different. The traffic was bumper to bumper, backed up for a mile, and with all the traffic lights on that road in addition to whatever else was going on -- road work, it looked like, nice timing dudes -- no one was moving.

My commute to work is only about three miles, and I'd walked two and a half of them before a bus rolled by.

Lucky it was a nice day. It would have been such a drag if it were raining out. I really hate getting soaked by rain on my way to work, because wet jeans are just no fun, you have to sit there at your desk with clammy denim against your skin and it takes forever to dry ... bleah.

But it was sunny out. So it was okay.