Ames has spoiled me

Ames has spoiled me in lots of ways, but the way this post is concerned with is the bus system. You go to Cyride's website and you get a full map of Ames with all the bus routes on it. When you want to plan a bus trip in the IC, you have to download about a dozen PDFs, and open 7 or 8 pages. See, there are two bus systems here. One is called "Cambus" and is basically U of I buses. There are about 6 Cambus routes, and you have to open a page to see where each one goes, with a map that shows some of the surrounding area. Then there's Iowa City Transit, where you have to download a PDF for each route you want to view--there are about 12 of them. Even with all that downloading, the maps only show the streets the buses actually travel on--if it goes in a big loop, the streets in the middle of the loop aren't even shown--so you almost have to open Google Maps to figure out where the bus route is in relation to where you are. And in case you're wondering, they don't have a convenient map at bus shelters here. I guess they assume if you're at a bus stop, you know where you need to go.

However, you can have it email which buses to take and from where to get where you're going, but I'd rather just be able to look at a well-designed map and go. I guess that's too much to expect.

In unrelated news, I'm sleeping a lot better here than I had been the last couple weeks in Ames. I don't know if it's because the stress over not wanting to leave has gone, or something else, but I'll take it.