Colin says:
Traveling sucks. Its a mild form of torture in developing and third world countries. If flying already isn’t bad enough, apparently Britain is going to start instituting body scanners at airports, it will get there with well, the decline of humanity to soon be like the trains, buses, and motor bikes all over everywhere. After this trip I’m going to leave all of it out.

So what does one do on a 10 hour bus ride? Reading would seem like a good answer but for me, there seem to be a load of reasons why this is simply not possible. The puking everywhere around me is a good start or the ear shattering horns. The constant jerking and sardine nature to the seating arrangement are others….. Music is also out unless you want to go completely deaf. Anyhow, for me, the traveling part consists of me trying to erase my brain. Totally empty it and become a hollow shell of a person that has no feeling or being and can be smeared around by the masses at will. I have a tolerance for this however, and at about 10 hours begin to break.

Generally the the mood is either uplifted or shat upon by the nature of the place we are traveling too. Fortunately most of the places we’ve visited have turned the mood around for the better. Then it takes a good day to become a person again. Maybe I should just go to the beaches. Make a whole year of travel about finding the worlds best beaches! Sounds fantastic. I’ve been sitting beach side for 10 days now and must say I’ve found that I’ve become quite bored of it. The first 4 days where devoted to becoming a person again. Now I feel great and have nothing to do. Classic plight of the beach.