Off Topic With Ashley

Ever since the Translink journey planner suggested it, the urge to walk to work has been tugging at me.

It’s an absolute bastard of a commute because it’s on the very edge of civilisation itself. Even though it’s only about ten kilometres away, it usually takes me upward of an hour to commute there. Some days it’ll happily run into an hour and a half, and while some days it’s fine, I can’t say I have ever felt positively about the prospect of catching any number of connecting services to get myself home.

So today when I saw there was a ten minute wait for one of my less favourite buses I decided to set off walking instead.

It wasn’t the smartest idea,  but to cut an exceedingly long story short; it worked. I took an inefficient way home, my shoes and clothes were a really bad fit for the job, it started raining at one point, but once I got moving the thought of stopping to squeeze myself on peak hour public transport was unappealing enough to keep me going.

I’ve walked to Toombul before, but never the entire way home. Truth be told, it was quite refreshing and only took about an hour and a half at a more than comfortable pace. I definitely wouldn’t consider doing it on a regular basis, but as a novelty thing… Yeah. It was definitely better than catching the bus.