My commute can be divided into three parts, which vary slightly depending on what bus I catch:

1. Leave home and drive about 2.5 miles to the Park n Ride. It's your typical drive through suburbia, and takes 7-10 minutes depending on whether school's in session. I typically listen to NPR or try and catch the news on my normal music station if the timing's right.
2. Hop on a bus to downtown. I pretty much zone out to the world on the bus and either read a book, catch up on blogs on my phone, or check in with the happenings on ChiefsPlanet. Bus ride's about 15 minutes.
3. Get from the bus to the office. Depending on which bus I catch, I then either take the shuttle on the 16th Street Mall down to the office, or I walk about 3 blocks. Either way, it takes about 5 minutes. If I'm on the shuttle, whatever activity I started on the bus typically continues. If I'm walking, I usually think about whatever will be waiting for me once I hit the office.

That's about it. If I catch the buses right, it's about a 30 minute commute, but I only drive 10 minutes of it, so it's a pretty pleasant commute most of the time.

My commute takes roughly about an hour.

The first 15-20 minutes is spent driving from my house to the daycare facility. I then spend another 10-15 minutes dropping my kids off and getting them situated. Then another 15-20 minutes driving to work.

I hop in my yellow Ford F-150 usually by 8:30. I'm not a morning person, but I don't like to arrive after 9:00. I eat my Dark Chocolate and Almonds Fiber Plus Antioxidants bar during the first 4 minutes which are on hilly, windy suburban roads, except the last 40 seconds which are on a boulevard. By then I'm at the convenience store, where I stop and fill my insulated mug for $0.97 including tax. I try to pay with $1.02 when possible so I get a nickel in change. I glance at the headlines in the news paper out the door.

The next 3 minutes are another boulevard in a mad dash to get to the interstate. Once on the interstate I work to get into the far left lane. I don't have a radio in my truck, and tend to focus heavily on driving. 12 minutes later I'm pulling off the interstate. From the interstate it is another 5 minute drive either through or on the edge of an old urban neighborhood to my parking spot, then another 4-7 minute walk to one of my two offices.

Going home is usually between 6:30 and 8:00, after the traffic has died down. Again, no radio, and obsessing over the details of the drive home. Often will stop at the grocery store on the way home.

Five minutes to the train station. 45 minute train ride to Union Station. Bus or walk to the office. Adds up to about an hour and 25 minutes.

WTF kind of truck has no radio in it?

Loss leader.

Ugly yellow w ruby red vynil interior.
No ac
Manual trans
no carpet
I had to add my own cup holder.

Did they have to pay you to drive it off the lot?

37 miles around 40 minutes with a stop to get coffee at quiktrip every night

Typically between 20 and 30 minutes.

I'll listen either to a number of 5by5 podcasts off my phone via Instacast (one of my favorite iOS apps) or will rock one of my smart playlists. The best for the commute is called Power Hour which is made up of songs rated 3 stars or above; that haven't been fully played in the last 3 weeks; that haven't been skipped in the last 2 weeks. The playlist is limited to one hour selected at random. Every night when I plug my phone in to listen to some George Noory it refreshes all the play counts and grabs new tunes.

My commute takes 5-10 minutes depending on how many of the three lights between here and there I hit red. My office is on the same street that the cul de sac I live on is off of. I drive past a hospital, and a few other medical office buildings.

On the way home, there is a point just past the hospital (between two stop lights) where the road goes from two lanes one way to one. People will get in the lane that ends with the expectation that they will be able to cut in front of someone before they reach the next light where that lane ends (that lane becomes a right turn lane). I don't people in front of me, even if they signal. I hope they end up having to stop and wait to get back into the correct lane. More times than not, whoever I am behind does not feel the same way, so that other driver is usually able to cut them off. Irritates the crap out of me, and I have no clue why.

Anyway, I usually get to listen to about two whole songs on the radio each way, as long as I catch a spot where they don't go to commercial. In the summer, I was going to ride my bike to work, but I never know when my attorney might have me running errands, so I drive.

I hate you.
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Walk out the backdoor at 7:50, smile at the cute gal working the bank drive-thru, walk into the grocery store for a Powerade, say hello to the cute deli girl, walk across the street, enter my office door at 7:55.

Walk. Takes seconds. Listen to classical music. I think about everything and nothing. Drink coffee and chat with the dogs.

Why even go to work the other 95% of the time? :hmmm:

LMAO
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