Yesterday we sold our ten year old  car for scrap, the engine had blown out .We need an amazing manifestation to get another car of any kind . so far we have squeezed out about 300 bucks a car that runs at all starts around 3000 so we have  a leetle gap. We live in Los Angeles County so  the public transportation is amazingly bad.
The girls college is about 16 miles away up Valley View  in a straight shot but in order to get there by bus it takes three buses  in two different county bus systems  and over 2 and a half hour and almost 4 dollars(3.90). one way. Strangely I feel optimistic about this situation