Bridges Between

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RuneE is sponsoring this monthly challenge on the first Monday of every month. Bridges Between is subject to open interpretation.




This bridge gives me the opportunity to go many places in my town and across the river in Portland, Oregon too. It is my monthly bus pass. I use it when ever I choose not to walk because of distance or because what I am carrying is too heavy - like my groceries. With the price of fuel what it is, a bus pass is the way to go. Our newest fleet of buses use bio-fuel which is environment friendly, they say. Because I am a "senior," I get a special discount along with the young and the disabled. I get this BRIDGE each month. I use it often for longer trips or when I don't have my hiking shoes on.

Take Sunday, for example. . . I walked the two blocks to the stop and took a bus to church because it is on the other side of town. After church, I went to the grand opening of a park near where I used to live and walked a couple miles to get there. (I knew I would be doing this so wore flat shoes to church.) After the speeches and ribbon cutting at the park, there was a free picnic. Then, I walked over to my friend, Myrl's. Her house is near the park. She had a stroke a few years ago. . . she will be celebrating another birthday Thursday. She is always happy to see me and I, her. We visited for a couple hours and then I headed home, walking about two miles. That got me to the bus stop again where I used my BRIDGE and when it let me off, I had three blocks to walk.

Monday, this BRIDGE will take me to and from Vacation Bible School and then to run some errands in the afternoon. Last week, it took me to the head of a walking trail which I completed hiking before taking the bus home using THE BRIDGE again. It used to take me to work before I retired. It also took me to other walking trails, the Columbia River, Portland, to work and back, to the movies and shopping. I even used this bridge to explore new parts of our city that I am not that familiar with YET!

Most bridges, one crosses over BUT this one, takes me places from one point to another and most of the time, we don't cross any bodies of water (exception is when the bus crosses the I-5 Columbia River bridge between Vancouver and Portland.) I use it as many times as I want to each month. I never "burn" my bridges so somewhere I must have hundreds of bridges I used in the past 22 years to make my crossings around town.