Some Lessons Learned in the Month of May

In early May, on a rainy Monday morning, my husband was in a car accident. No one was hurt, thank God; shaken, yes, but otherwise fine. However, our car was a total loss. On that day, I needed to get from the Westside to the Valley, then Silverlake, then the Palisades. And now we had no car. My first impulse was to cancel everything for the day - and I did cancel the Valley. Then some temporary fixes presented themselves. A "Tap" card could be purchased - the first step in buying a day pass on the LA Metro system. I gathered information on routes [...]