Comments on: Stop the Bus: highs and lows of bus travel in strange lands http://www.501places.com/2012/01/stop-the-bus-bus-travel-in-strange-lands/ Travel stories that won't change the world Wed, 11 Jun 2014 06:07:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.2 By: Andy Jarosz http://www.501places.com/2012/01/stop-the-bus-bus-travel-in-strange-lands/#comment-69406 Sat, 14 Jan 2012 13:18:39 +0000 http://www.501places.com/?p=8024#comment-69406 Great stories, thanks Leyla. The smirk from the bus driver who drives off – we’ve all seen it I guess although it seems more common here in the UK than elsewhere. Love the Ugandan improvisation!

]]> By: Leyla Giray http://www.501places.com/2012/01/stop-the-bus-bus-travel-in-strange-lands/#comment-69400 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 06:52:40 +0000 http://www.501places.com/?p=8024#comment-69400 Ah yes… highs and lows… In northern Uganda I spent several days waiting for a postal bus but they inevitably arrived full from Kampala – and the rule was No Standing so unless you could sit, you couldn’t ride. On Day 3 (having hurt my knee and looking worse for the wear) I resorted to pleasing – the driver went back into the post office and came out looking victorious: exceptionally a chair would be placed on the bus so that I could sit, and therefore ride. Where there’s a (good)will, there’s a way.

In Venezuela on a deserted road I once saw the one and only bus hurtle past towards the bus stop. I ran to catch it and as I was almost there, it took off. The driver had clearly seen me – his smirk in the rearview mirror said it all. A strange way to show your superiority.

But how would we ever travel without buses? We couldn’t!

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