The Brunch Table

I faced an interesting challenge this morning: how to travel twenty miles back home, in suburban LA, on foot, on a Sunday morning. Now, it’s generally accepted that “the buses” don’t run here on Sundays…but I had company on my way back, a guy who’d been here a while and who was also (although in his case, temporarily) carless. He knew which lines were still running, and where the printed schedules were wrong. One dollar bought a ride and a transfer, and two buses and a relatively brief hour and a half later (the ride is 20 minutes by car), I was back.

All told, a pleasant surprise. Except, after it was done, I thought back about what those two buses were doing. The first alone would’ve taken me there…but the second bus was required to cross the freeway. Without that, there might as well have been a fortified wall between me and home.