My trip home from Vernon’s house involves 3 different buses, and, on average, 2.3 hours. My favorite bus route in the Twin Cities is the 71, which I don’t get to take very often because it stops running in the evenings by the time I’ve gotten out of work or class and head out there — but if I’m leaving from his house early in the morning I get to take it. It runs down Concord almost the whole way, following the Mississippi past all the old industrial buildings and stockyards and overgrown railroad tracks. In the winter you can catch glimpses of the river reflecting sunlight through the less dense patches of bare trees, and, if you pay attention, a beautiful old rail bridge.