My friend Mickey will be happy to know that I am officially fluent in public transportation. She once commented in the office that “Christy’s version of public transportation is a taxi.” (I don’t deny it). Yes, I have taken the occasional BART ride to and from the airport and I did take the bus once (with a chaperon) in my five years in San Francisco, but now I am fully versed in the language of trains, busses, metros, subways, undergrounds, ferries and now cable cars! Today (again pretending this is present day), traveling from Switzerland to Prague, I took two cable cars, two busses, three trains, one plane and one taxi . . . all by 2:30 in the afternoon! When I was traveling with Wendy, she said every time I go to a new city,
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