White Boy/White Dog Move To Skid Row

Certified Beach Dude Moves To Downtown Los Angeles

The Metro system has been on my nerves this week- I guess every 6 months the bus drivers bid for new schedules and rarely do they get the same schedule. So just after you’ve figured out the idiosyncracies of each driver you may encounter (whether they typically are late, early, fall asleep between runs [...]

Riding the Metro Red Line to Universal City and the 150/240 bus from Universal City to Encino daily is a paradox; The morning is really tough on me as there are not many people around- I have to wait almost 15 minutes in the cold, dark valley air at Universal City for the first bus [...]

It’s Friday- I’ve survived my first week working at a client’s site in almost 7 years, and I did it by relying on Los Angeles public transportation- something I thought was damn near impossible. I must give credit to my friend DGlobetrotter who just happened to decide to take the bus/train trip from her [...]

When I decided to try the “green” commute thing, I got all anal and printed out all the schedules for the rail and connecting buses (there are 2 possiblities for me to catch), both going and returning, for all possible time-windows. I had nice tables like this for my 2:00 to 2:30 pm departure [...]

I knew it was bound to happen- that the excitement and “newness” of the Metro experience was going to fade and I was going to be frustrated. Today it happened- a slap in the face to remind me that things can get bad- and they will get much worse somedays, but today was a [...]

I took my first real commute using the Metro Transit Authority’s resources today, taking both a bus and the Metro rail. This is the first time that I could plot a route that actually got me to where I wanted to go, with very little hassle. The commute was about 1 hour and [...]