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Top 13 Tips For A Long Bus Ride

by Mike Richard

Jessica at Hedgehogs Without Borders just posted her Top 13 Tips for a Long Bus Ride. I found #11 particular humorous:

Tip #11 – Don’t sit at the front of the bus

I know you’re reading this right now thinking it would be great to have such a wonderful view out the windshield as you travel the world by bus, but it’s not. I can not tell you the number of times I watched as we went around a curve, at night, at top speed, on the wrong side of the road, on a narrow mountain pass, with nothing but the horn being sounded. I am certain I cut off several years of my life by staring, scared shitless out the windshield of a giant bus careening down the middle of a Bangkok highway on the wrong side of the divider. So do yourself a huge favor and sit away from the windshield.

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About the Author

Vagabondish editor, Mike Richard, lives in Rhode Island - a spit of land in the northeastern U.S. He is a professional web designer and travel junkie with an unhealthy addiction to backpacking, camping, hiking and seeing the world. He enjoys knit hats, small, declarative sentences and speaking in the third person.