More buses

Thursday pm, 5 miles in :41

No sooner did I get home from work tonight than I was asked to perform my husbandly duty; that is, take Silas out for a run so that Christine could spend an an hour studying with our friend Sara. Always happy to comply, I suited us up and grabbed the stroller. It was already dark, and Silas wasn't in the best mood at the end of a long day, so I decided to take a simple route that would maximize our bus-seeing potential. We scored right away with a school bus on MLK, but things were dead for a while longer until we saw the 79 at University Ave. No more buses for a while, and Silas was getting annoyed with this process. I kept the chatter up, telling him about the evening, and our upcoming trip for the holidays, and pointing out Christmas lights, but he was uninterested. Finally, after making it up to Shattuck and back towards downtown, we hit the mother lode! Shattuck Ave is home to 5 or 6 bus lines, plus university and Berkeley Lab buses. We saw about a bus a minute, all the way down to the Berkeley Bowl. Very satisfactory. We left the run an open loop as we did a little shopping and then walked home, sharing an Arkansas Black apple.

Some people enjoy an inner dialog when they run. These days, even when I'm alone, my inner dialog has to interrupt to acknowledge any bus or train that might make its presence known.