Oh, and I’ve been learning a lot about the capacity of various vehicles.
It IS possible to carry a refrigerator, 2 TV’s, and a cooler on 1 hand truck (dolly).
It is also possible to transport 5 mattresses with a station wagon.
And just because the bus is too full to close the doors, does NOT mean it’s too full to let more people on. Don’t know which ride was more interesting – the one in which I rode in the doorway, or the one when I sat on a wooden seat between the driver and the driver’s window.
Pedestrians do not exactly have the right of way here. You can kill them, just try not to injure them because then you’ll have to pay their medical bills for the rest of their life. A good precaution for drivers is to simply honk your horn before each intersection that doesn’t have a stop sign (which is a lot of them).
The insides of the buses are interesting. Decorations galore! From red velvet with yellow tassels adorning the dash, to “Jesus te amo” stickers and Winnie the Pooh pendants – all in the same bus.
Good times. J
This is great ;-) -Rebecca
ReplyDeleteOnce, before we had a car, we were trying to catch a bus home from church with our entire clan of 12. A bus stopped for us. There were literally 3 guys hanging out the door of the bus because it was so full, yet the driver thought he could cram the 12 of us on there too. We passed and waited for another. ;^) It´s fun seeing Bolivia again for the first time through your ´new´ eyes. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeletehaha yes...the busses...just wait til you see the unmentionable posters on some of them :( but even so I miss them terribly and wish I was in Cocha right now!
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