Argentina prides itself on its bus service and today I took the stretch limo of buses - I was mac daddy lying back in my black leather fully reclined seat watching a flat screen TV! I have bused all over this goddamn Continent - from one side of Mexico to the other, a casual 40 hours. But from Guatemala to Nicaragua was the most grueling, we befriended a guy in Guatemala who looked after our bags for us whilst we ate lunch, who then later confessed whilst on the bus that he had just trafficed drugs from Guatemala to Mexico!! Shit your pants! Beady forehead of sweat for me - I freaked out about what may now be in the contents of my bag locked away under the bus! and we had to cross two patrolled boarders before I could find out!
That horror story aside we then ran out of money to pay taxes at the Nicaragua boarder so they kicked us off the bus, they didn't except visa and there were no cash machines for 10km and with no way to get there! In the end we had to go round every person we saw begging for money and once we had acquired the cold hard cash we got cycled over the boarder me, Zoe and a patrol officer in a trailor/tuktuk contraption designed for one person (poor guy riding the bike in front, was struggling like hell to cycle the three of us over the bridge). Luckily the bus waited for us on the other side and we were back to the life of an orchestra of snoring, prison meals and uncomfortable sleeping positions.
$180 ARD bus
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