Vacations Blog

Starting at 9pm Pacific Time on December 31, no fare will be charged for any service on Metro bus and rail lines.  The rail lines and the Orange bus line will operate all night every 2o minutes.  Regular fares start up again at 2AM on New Year’s Day (so get your drunk ass home before then or it’ll cost you $1.25 for travel in one direction). 

Additionally, Metro urges you to use the Gold Line on Friday for the Rose Parade and Rose Bowl game.  Special shuttles will travel from the Sierra Madre Villa station to the viewing grounds where you can see the Rose Parade floats after the parade is over (12:30 to 2:30PM).

If you are not in Los Angeles, you can watch the parade on ABC, Hallmark Channel, HGTV, KTLA (Tribune), NBC, RFD-TV, Travel Channel, and Univision.

When you consider both the mustache debacle and the fact that I was given a 9mm by my brother with the Greyhound bus I was to board en route to Tim & Robin in Oklahoma City, you can imagine my mindset.

I was sneaking on a gun.
I had a dyed face.
I was on a mode of transportation that suited neither.

Funny how on the previous rides, they were the freaks. Read More »

You don’t get a lot of sleep when there are 5 people on the bus. But you do get a lot of laughs. Sleep you can find anywhere, so it’s a fair enough trade. All of us except Tim, who’s been fighting off something for the past few days, got up early. Robin, Kate and I dropped off Collin to go try and quickly download an iPhone app for his golf (in)ability before playing 18 and we headed over to the Lower 9th Ward, which is – if you don’t know – the hardest hit area of Katrina. Read More »