I love the buses. When I was very young I lived in the NYC area and always rode the buses with my mom. (She, like many housewives of the era, did not drive or have a car to drive.) I started driving, myself, at age 16 and donated my last car to charity just before we arrived here. I do not miss driving at all. When I want to get a pizza for supper, I phone it in, go out to the corner and catch the bus, get off across from the pizza place, pick/pay, and then catch another bus down the block that lets me off on the same corner I left from. I had been planning to do more exploring by bus, long distance, but I'm not doing as well with the cold as I'd hoped so I'm sticking close to home until the Spring. Then I'm off exploring (if I'm not working). Buses are great!