This work will deal with questions about the route I take from home to the university, which took place during the COVID-19 pandemic and its recent flexibility measures. I describe the use I make of public transport, I will be detailing the two modes used by me during the journey to the University: BRT and MetrôRio. The route has many things to tell that entangle the understandings of distance not only physical, but also social, that separatethe two means of transport proposed here. The background for the analyzes made concerns the mobility of my life, which I will treat here as portals crossing. The first portal is personal, and therefore also social, mobility through studying at PUC-Rio. The second is urban mobility, through publictransport where I can cross the simbolic chasms on both sides, leave the favela where I live to go to the South Zone of the city and its own nuances.