Living on Guam for more than half of my life, my experiences with any form of public transportation has been extremely limited. The bus service has never been reliable on island and we have no metro or train system, so I have always been either a passenger or driver of a automobile.
When the friends we stayed with recommended the Metro station, you can only imagine my apprehension to the idea. I think I watched too many movies in my time and everything negative you could think of ran through my head about public trains and late night rides on the metro systems.
The experience however wasn’t all too bad. Durning the five days in Washington DC we would drive to the Hunnington station in Alexandria and ride on the Yellow into the main parts of the capital. Looking at the traffic on the freeways, we actually shaved off quite a bit of time by travelling on the Metro rather than trying to drive straight into the city.
