Planes, Trains and Automobiles - and Buses Too!

Texas trip day one.  Being a new transplant to the Portland area has one big disadvantage - I don’t have any friends close enough to beg for a ride to the airport 40 minutes away.  And since Eddie was at work, I was SOL and on my own.  I decided to give the whole Tri-Met system a try and found a bus & light rail schedule that would work to get me to the airport on time.  I walked a half mile from my apartment to the bus stop and paid $2.30 which covered my bus and light rail fares.  It was a 40-minute ride from my house to the Beaverton Transit Center where I caught the light rail.  The lady driving the bus was awesome.  A couple of her regulars boarded the bus while I was on and she was super friendly with all of them and she’s one of those people who just loves their job - even though you might expect someone in that position to not love their job.  Then I hopped on the light rail and saw parts of Portland I had never seen before and really enjoyed relaxing during the 1-hour trip.  BUT...  I was way too cautious with my planning because I was paranoid something would go wrong so I planned to get to the airport three hours before my departure time.  Needless to say, I was quite bored at the airport.  But PDX is a really nice airport.  And now that I know Rogue has a restaurant in one of terminals, the airport is even cooler in my book.

Not much to say about Dallas so far.  It was well after 10:00 P.M. when we checked in so we just ran up to the room to throw our bags down then went to the lobby bar for drinks and a snack.  We also met with some family members that I haven’t seen in over twelve years during my last trip to Texas.  And since I’m running on just three hours of sleep, I am going to bed.  And because of this my media mention will be lame (my lack of creativity is lame, not the media mention itself).  So my mention is the title of this blog.  What a classic!  “You’re going the wrong way.  You’re gonna die.”  ....  “Wait, how do they know where we’re going?”  Love it.  But going back to the title of this blog, I did in fact travel by all four of these modes of transportation today.  Busy, busy, busy.  Let’s see what tomorrow will bring.