Hugh's Worthless Blog

Today I decided to take along my son's inexpensive camera he received a couple years ago from Geeks.com . I think it only cost $39 two years ago or so, and it actually takes some pretty good photos. If you look at the lovely bus stop marker here you can see Landmark Place in the background. It is too bad you cannot even tell what buses stop here at this stop unless you already know since first the "Stop Eliminated" and then the "Temporarily Restored" signs render the bus stop sign pretty useless. If you blow up the picture you will see "59" on the lower left signifying Metrobus route #59 stopping here, but it does not mention the ever popular Metrobus #2 (Red Line) which does indeed pass there every hour. My first shots here are from the corner of Brentwood and Rose at about 7:45am. Nobody else was there so I must have looked weird listening to my MP3 player (a Creative Zen V) and playing with the old digital camera at the side of the road. From here y...

Well. since I love talking about riding buses and trains, I thought I would mention another exciting bus ride I had today. No, not my morning ride on Metrobus #2, although it was a beautiful morning to be riding down Clayton Road and up Skinker to the Wash U campus. Nor is it about my evening ride on Metrobus #58 from the Clayton Metrolink station down Clayton Road where I stop and walk home. No tonight was "Meet the Teacher" night at Ladue Middle School where my son attends, and after meeting all his very wonderful and talented teachers at the middle school, I was privileged to ride a school bus back to the high school where they let us park for the event. The bus driver was very talkative and pleasant, asking us about the food at the school event, and somehow ending up talking about how there is no good television on late at night worth staying up to watch. It was upon leaving that I realized I was riding the exact same bus my son takes every morning, and was experiencin...