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I am going to start posting pictures of some past cities. I think this will allow me to post more efficiently without having to embed them into the actual day. It´s not like they are life changing anyways. They are still vacation pictures and who gives a shit about those.
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Today was a travel day and boy was I ready. After a semi-restful night, I packed my stuff and dropped off the keys. I didn’t feel like trying to wrestle my way into a mini-bus so I waited for a taxi. I quickly got a guy and told him to take me to the #50 Mini-bus area. We were off. During the ride I questioned him about how much it should cost. He asked if I was interested in taking a shared taxi. The mini-buses and buses in general are nice and usually the cheapest way to go, but when your carrying two packs, it is so much easier to throw it in the trunk of a car. With only four other people in the car you also don’t have to deal with the dropping off and picking up people the whole way to your destination. In this case it was two dollars cheaper so I told him to take me to the taxi place. We pulled up and a guy was waving for one more. It was perfect timing. I got out and paid the taxi guy (who charged me the least amount out of all the taxis I took,) and threw my stuff in the new car. With that, we were off. It would have only been better if I could have gotten the front seat, but oh well at least I wasn’t stuck in the center spot. The ride was fairly uneventful with the exception of us hitting two dogs on the way and getting pulled over by some big wig who was giving a tour of an intersection to some other people. He ripped out taxi driver for driving too fast through town. In regards to the dogs if you were wondering, the road that takes you all along the coast is basically one road with houses and buildings almost the entire way. All the people, animals, and dogs walk along the road to get anywhere. Cars fly along there like crazy, so there are road kill all over the place. Their does not seem to be a person that picks up the pieces, because some of them have been there a while. They just eventually get squished down to nothing. Its not a pretty sight. Anyways, a couple of hours later we pulled up to the Ferry which was the end of our ride. We jumped out and headed into the terminal. The place was pretty big with enough room for a couple of hundred people. After a hours wait, they opened up the ticket window and I bought my $.20 ticket. We loaded onto the Ferry about an hour later. The ride was about twenty minutes which really was just a ride across to the other side. The river is fairly wide, so the Ferry hauled cars, trucks, people, etc. When we got off it was the usual at any entry way. A hundred guys either selling something or wanting to take you somewhere. I hate that shit when people get in your face screaming about where you are going and such. I always tell the people to piss off until I get my bearings and figure out whats going on. A lot of people get in trouble because they are dazed and confused so they follow anybody who tells them something. That is where people and there money get separated really quickly. I bought a soda and asked the guy where the taxi area was in town. He gave me directions and I took off walking. Guys were yelling and honking at me, but I just kept walking. I found the place, talked to the guy who was going to Springland and even got the front seat. We took off a few minutes later. It was smooth, just the way I like it. This ride took about three hours because it was a mini-bus and we had to keep dropping off and picking up people. I got to sleep part of the way so it wasn’t too bad. When we finally got to Springland, I was kind of in a daze because it looked no different than the other three hours of areas we had drove through. With that, I was in my new town.
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