trying to plan
Aug. 2nd, 2025 05:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lauradi7dwI am being betrayed by travel apps. Unless they are being really helpful. Hard to know.
I decided a bit arbitrarily to visit Halibut point state park tomorrow
https://www.mass.gov/locations/halibut-point-state-park
(insert "just for the halibut" joke here, except I wouldn't know a halibut if I met one).
The MBTA/commuter rail has a $10 RT fare for most of the system on weekends. A problem with weekends and commuter rail is that for a lot of the lines, the trains are only every two hours. Planning around that, I asked Apple and Google maps (separately) to get me from North Station to the far end of the park. Each told me about 6 hours. What? If I add up the components, it's an hour and fifteen minutes on the train, then an hour walk. Isn't that two and a half hours? If I add in an 1:59 to wait if I just miss a train, that would be four and a half. On weekdays, I think there is a bus from the train station into the park. If they want me to take the bus, that would be many extra hours, which is to say, overnight.
It's unnerving.
I decided a bit arbitrarily to visit Halibut point state park tomorrow
https://www.mass.gov/locations/halibut-point-state-park
(insert "just for the halibut" joke here, except I wouldn't know a halibut if I met one).
The MBTA/commuter rail has a $10 RT fare for most of the system on weekends. A problem with weekends and commuter rail is that for a lot of the lines, the trains are only every two hours. Planning around that, I asked Apple and Google maps (separately) to get me from North Station to the far end of the park. Each told me about 6 hours. What? If I add up the components, it's an hour and fifteen minutes on the train, then an hour walk. Isn't that two and a half hours? If I add in an 1:59 to wait if I just miss a train, that would be four and a half. On weekdays, I think there is a bus from the train station into the park. If they want me to take the bus, that would be many extra hours, which is to say, overnight.
It's unnerving.
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Date: 2025-08-02 10:22 pm (UTC)I was there with
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Date: 2025-08-03 12:53 am (UTC)But what if something goes wrong? Will they say: "We told you so?" (no. they can't think).