Like this:

I sure have gotten lucky with transportation.

I only live five minutes away from the metro so I have the options to either borrow the car from the family I’m staying with and pay $5 at the metro station. I can also take the bus, which is convenient but takes forever and costs more than the metro.

But the SLUG Park and Ride option out in the Virginia suburbs takes the cake. Each day I simply drive to the park and ride and hop in with some other random person who happens to be driving to the Pentagon, where I then jump on the metro and only go like 10 more minutes to work.

It’s crazy convenient, 50 cars or park at these park and ride lots each day and then there seem to always be cars in line to pick up people on their way to work. The awesome concept became popular when the local highway system was trying to fill the HOV lanes a few years back.

I normally have to get to work to the lot by like 7:30 in the morning and I need to take a bus back to the park and ride in the evenings but how could I complain?

In the past week, I’ve overheard fascinating conversations in the rides involving Department of Defense contracts, trading securities and why cocky Canadians will never win the Olympic Hockey gold ever again.

I know some people have a fear of hitchhiking but everyone I’ve met is absurdly friendly, especially because the system is so established.

What a great way to start the day.

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