Things I have learned from riding on Central American Buses

A lot of this blog has to do with all the cool things that we have done on the trip...but one of things we haven´t spent a lot of time writing about, but have spent A LOT of time doing is riding on buses...here are a few of the valuable lessons I have learned on this trip.

1) Do not go out drinking the night before a 5 hour bus ride...no matter how good that 3rd glass of wines tastes at the time.

2) If you do have that 3rd glass of wine, try try try to get it out of your system BEFORE you hit the road....you do not know when the next bathroom will be!

3) If you do happen to make it to the roadside bathroom, don´t go in there in an attempt to alleviate any sort of nausea. These bathrooms tend to induce such feelings.

4) When the bus stops at a local rest area, stick with the typical truck stop foods (burgers, fries, etc). Yeah, the menu says they have a green salad, but trust me, it ain´t green and you probably can´t identify any of the vegetables.

3) Never ever say, at the end of a particularly bad bus ride, ¨Man, that was the worst bus ride ever¨...trust us, it wasn´t the worst ride ever...bus rides can always get worse.

4) Have you ever heard the quote, ¨I once felt sorry for the man who had no shoes until I met the a man who had no feet¨? Well, it applies to riding buses in Central America...except it goes like this...¨I once complained about sitting in a smelly uncomfortable seat in a rundown old school bus, until I didn´t have an actual seat but had to sit in the dirty aisle for 5 hours.¨ Yep....