Thursday 01/15/2026
Today the Car-Free group had scheduled an outing, to take the #21 bus that loads just across the street from us, down to Mitchell Park for a walk. I decided to go just because I thought it would be interesting to ride that bus one stop further than the group planned, and get off close to the FOPAL building.
The group as a whole were not used to riding the bus, and three had walkers. Stew and Lou, organizing, assured everybody it would be fine. The phone-savvy among us had the Transit app up, and could see the countdown for when our particular bus was coming. At 1 minute to go, it came around the corner right on time. The driver flipped out the ramp, making it easy for the walker users to get on, and off we went.
So at FOPAL I sat down with my computer and went to work on the massive wall of boxes. I spent four hours, 10 to 2, working, and made a visible dent. Then hopped the #21 going the other way to get back. Bus riding is easy for a senior these days, I just tap my senior Clipper card on the reader as I get on and it charges me $1.
I figure to go back, probably using the bus again, tomorrow afternoon and again Sunday.
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