Magic Bus
Magic Bus by The Who https://youtu.be/bl9bvuAV-Ao
In the book "Into the Wild" Chris McCandless travels to Fairbanks, Alaska, to try to venture out into the wilderness and be alone. If you've never read the book it is an amazing and tragic book. Chris finds an abandoned bus in the bush outside of Denali National Park and he names it "The Magic Bus". [Spoiler Alert] He dies in that bus after he eats some poisonous plants. In Healy, a small town just north of Denali there is the 49th State Brewery and they have a replica of the bus that was used for the movie which was based on the book. I took a bunch of pictures of myself and the kids at the bus, a very tourist thing to do.
One of the benefits of my job is that I get to ride the public transit bus for free. In Tampa the bus is called the HART line (for Hillsborough Area Regional Transit) and in Anchorage it is called People Mover. I ride the bus to work because when we moved we sold my wife's minivan because shipping it would have been more expensive than the van was worth, and we figured we needed less expenses here since everything costs more (gas, food, rent, etc.).
I ride the 75 line every morning and I get one of either two drivers, one I call the nice driver, and the other driver I call Mister Mean. The nice driver says good morning and when you get off the bus he says, "Have a nice day". Mister Mean has to thoroughly scrutinize my ID every time I ride the bus. He makes sure everyone with a reduced fare shows their ID which means sometimes we are all slowed down and the bus is behind. Another thing about the whole ID thing is a lot of reduced fair people are homeless or elderly so they have trouble producing that ID. I've seen the nice driver help someone load their bike on the bus. I've seen Mister Mean almost kick a kid off because he was 15 cents short (everyone on the bus got the 15 cents together).
Yesterday morning I was reading an argument people were having on social media and I totally missed my stop and ended up three miles away downtown. Luckily, I used Google Maps public transit feature and navigated to another bus stop that took me to work. Riding the bus isn't something I had to, or wanted to do, in Tampa but now I feel like I'm meeting people and experiencing Anchorage in a way I would never had before. I think I might give the nice bus driver and my bus stop people a Christmas gift when it's that time. {FYI: this morning I had Mister Mean he was giving me a hard time, looking at my ID a lot and someone's bus pass was having trouble scanning he almost kicked them off}
In the book "Into the Wild" Chris McCandless travels to Fairbanks, Alaska, to try to venture out into the wilderness and be alone. If you've never read the book it is an amazing and tragic book. Chris finds an abandoned bus in the bush outside of Denali National Park and he names it "The Magic Bus". [Spoiler Alert] He dies in that bus after he eats some poisonous plants. In Healy, a small town just north of Denali there is the 49th State Brewery and they have a replica of the bus that was used for the movie which was based on the book. I took a bunch of pictures of myself and the kids at the bus, a very tourist thing to do.
One of the benefits of my job is that I get to ride the public transit bus for free. In Tampa the bus is called the HART line (for Hillsborough Area Regional Transit) and in Anchorage it is called People Mover. I ride the bus to work because when we moved we sold my wife's minivan because shipping it would have been more expensive than the van was worth, and we figured we needed less expenses here since everything costs more (gas, food, rent, etc.).
I ride the 75 line every morning and I get one of either two drivers, one I call the nice driver, and the other driver I call Mister Mean. The nice driver says good morning and when you get off the bus he says, "Have a nice day". Mister Mean has to thoroughly scrutinize my ID every time I ride the bus. He makes sure everyone with a reduced fare shows their ID which means sometimes we are all slowed down and the bus is behind. Another thing about the whole ID thing is a lot of reduced fair people are homeless or elderly so they have trouble producing that ID. I've seen the nice driver help someone load their bike on the bus. I've seen Mister Mean almost kick a kid off because he was 15 cents short (everyone on the bus got the 15 cents together).
Yesterday morning I was reading an argument people were having on social media and I totally missed my stop and ended up three miles away downtown. Luckily, I used Google Maps public transit feature and navigated to another bus stop that took me to work. Riding the bus isn't something I had to, or wanted to do, in Tampa but now I feel like I'm meeting people and experiencing Anchorage in a way I would never had before. I think I might give the nice bus driver and my bus stop people a Christmas gift when it's that time. {FYI: this morning I had Mister Mean he was giving me a hard time, looking at my ID a lot and someone's bus pass was having trouble scanning he almost kicked them off}
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