New Bus Route

Today marks an exciting day in the life of Samuel. As of today, the valleys bus services have officially added a new express bus route that goes from Queen Creek to ASU. The limitations include the fact that the bus leaves Queen Creek once in the morning at 6:15 am and leaves ASU once in the evening at 5:15 pm. That is it. You miss it, tough luck. But here is the good and unexpected stuff about todays bus trip.

Caren and I drove yesterday to the bus stop to make sure I knew how to get there. It is less then 12 miles from my home. This is a great improvement over the 42 miles to ASU campus. This morning I woke up with the expectation to get to the bus stop by 6am. Plenty of time to not miss the bus. What I did not expect to find was the welcoming committee. There had to have been 8 - 10 people there just to welcome us riders on this new bus route. They even included danishes and drinks. By the time the bus was ready to leave we had all of 3 passengers. 3!!!! The welcoming people were excited to have the 3 of us there. I'm just hoping they don't cancel the route. The traffic was not as bad as expected because we arrived 15 minutes early even though we left 5 minutes late. I hope the same will be true this evening on the way home. I do evjoy the closeness of this bus.

That's all for now. Classes are in full swing and so is my research. Until later. SKT