My Family’s Money

I think we may be at the beginning of the end for my wife’s car. I’m no mechanic, but I think the smoke coming from the engine block and all that oil dripping is probably a pretty bad thing. For the time being I’ll be riding the bus and relying on the kindness of friends and strangers until we can get the car into the shop and figure out if the car is even worth repairing.

Once I figured out that my wife’s car shouldn’t be driven, I jumped on the handy-dandy internet and did a search to check bus schedules that run from my area to the place that I work about 11 miles away. Apparently, www.511sd.com is the place to go for public transportation information in San Diego. It has this cool little feature called the Transit Trip Planner where I can enter my address and the location of my work and it will give me what bus I should take to reach my destination on time. It even shows the price that I will have to pay, so I will know exactly what I should bring.

If I only catch the cheap bus and walk the extra mile and half to work it will only cost me $5 a day instead of $8.50. I think that I’ll pocket the extra $3.50 and walk since I still will get to work at about the same time. A monthly pass works out to $64 a month. This may turn out to be a longer term solution depending on how our car situation works out.