This post keeps deleting so this is the third time that I’ve written it.
I had fish & chips with mum & dad @ Kailis Bros in Freo. Was a little bit cold and cloudy and there weren’t too many people. Dinner was nice like always and then M&D dropped me off at the train station just before 8pm. The train was pretty empty and I caught it all the way to Subi and then walked to the gym to do some bench press. Did a few sets and then walked up Rokeby Rd and onto Bagot and then made it home. It was pretty busy and I was sweating because I had track pants and a hoody on. Made it home and eventually went to bed around 10 - 1030 and I’m pretty sure that I shaved to save time the following morning.
Friday
I got up a little bit earlier than normal and made it to Daglish Station about 745am, waited about 5 mins and then caught the train. I was watching the live CAT times in my phone hard to see if I could get off at City West or if I had to go all the way to the city. These are normally a little unreliable - the website was showing about 12 min wait but I decided to risk it anyway, got off at City West and then walked about 50m’s to the CAT stop. The stop also showed about 13 mins but then after only 1 or 2 mins the CAT rocked up and I jumped on. Caught it to West Leederville next to the Leederville Station, crossed the Freeway overpass and then walked to the station. Waited a few mins and then caught the train to Glendalough.
As I arrived at Glendalough I knew this was the trickiest part of the journey, the bus that leaves from the station wasn’t arriving for awhile so I had to walk up Scarborough Beach Rd and then take a hard left on Main St. This walk is maybe 700 metres and I arrived at the bus stop about 822am, about 5 minutes before the bus was scheduled to arrive. As I was about 50 metres from the stop I did see a bus leaving the stop, which was peculiar. The bus was meant to arrive by about 828 but it never showed. I waited and waited, angry at the bus system and which I find hard to trust. It gets to about 842 and a bus rocks up, I jump on, get off about 2-3km’s up the road and across Main St and arrive at work - about 850am - an hour and a bit journey. At this point I thought maybe I should have just listened to dad and caught an Uber.
The day was cruisy, overcast and quiet and it got to 5pm and I started to get a little edgy to make sure that I didn’t make the same mistake as last year and not check the bus times. I left the office about 535 and walked about 100 metres or so to the bus stop and then waited 5 or so minutes and caught the correct bus. This was a good feeling. Rode the bus onto Scarborough Beach Rd and got off at Glendalough Station just after 6pm. Waited 10 minutes or so and then caught the train south. I wasn’t sure whether to take the risk and get off at Leederville and hope that the Green CAT was close by. I decided to take the chance, got off at the station, walked over the pedestrian overpass into West Leederville and the CAT was waiting so jumped on and made it to City West Station in good time.
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