Blogs from United States, North America - page 7066

It's not any bus. It's The Bus. The name of the public transport system on Oahu. The monthly bus pass takes you anywhere on the island. Problem is, it takes everyone else the same places. In the promised land of the automobile, Hawaii, or more specifically Oahu, is one of the few places where public transport is more favorable than driving your own car. From students to families, from lawyers to homeless; all take The Bus. The man sitting next to me probably belongs to the latter category. He looks at me with skepticism. "You have mean eyes" he tells me. What would be an appropriate answer to a wino commenting on your eyes? A "well, ok, sorry" have to do. If my mean eyes deter people from giving me hassle, that's something I can live ... read more

House Boat Trip at Lake Shasta... read more

I had just completed my duties as the Program Manager for the AMEC program, and my boss wanted to know if I wanted to move to California to work at our Environmental R&D lab at Port Hueneme. So we decided to take a look, and on the way would see some of the West, most of which we had seen before on home leave from Europe. 18 July 1998 Saturday. We piled into the van and headed west through Maryland, West Virginia, the southwest tip of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. In Ohio our air conditioner failed so we pulled off to see if a garage could fix it. We drove on U.S. routes instead of the Interstates to stop at more garages. Every garage we stopped was booked up. We finally arrived at a motel ... read more

Geo: 37.7792, -122.42abc... read more

Geo: 39.74, -104.992abc... read more