10/6/14- Catch Up Day

While Priscilla and Dianna were here we went to the Balloon Fiesta, Santa Fe, ate at nice restaurants for dinner and generally had a good time, but we had to say goodbye to them today.   I took Dianna to the airport and turned in the rental car.  Today was a catch up day.  Robbie came with us to the airport, picked up his own rental car and then dropped me off at the local Charles Schwab office so I could do some paperwork related to Dianna's retirement arrangements.  Joe was doing laundry and having the Thunderbird serviced, so after Charles Schwab I tried the Albuquerque transit system to get back to the hotel.  It was an adventure!  I found the central transit station by the university.  When I logged into the route finder, put in my ending location I received 4 different routes each with 3 or 4 transfers and a two hour time frame to take me 10 miles. I looked at the transit map on the wall, figured a route, checked the schedule and queued up for my 1st bus. It arrived about 3 minutes later.  At my transfer point to the express bus I got off and there was my second bus was right behind it,  I was within a mile and a half of the hotel within 25 minutes!  My final bus was a commuter that started the afternoon schedule at 2:02.  It was 1:55, so I  sat in the shade and waited. At 1:15 I asked another bus driver about my bus. She said, "Oh that is connected to the train system. it won't leave the road runner stop until the train gets in or the next bus arrives at the station  it is usually here by 3:00."  I called Joe, who who happened to be about 3 blocks away finishing up at the quick lube.  He picked me up and we went back to do planning for our next weeks adventure.