Friday, August 19, 2011

Have you met our bus driver?

...His name is Ernie.  He's also the bus driver that drives Harry Potter around.  He may look a little different, and have the accent like the shrunken head next to Ernie, but this is what riding the Reggae Buses down here is like!


I have to still take more pictures of what's going on around the island here, I just haven't been out much lately, but here's someone else's picture.
 
This is a nicer looking one, but this is the general idea.  They don't have A/C (that I've noticed anyway) but the windows slide open, so it's not so stifling inside.  And since the roads here are designed more like a bowl of spaghetti, you'd better hold on, because you'll be sliding all over the place.  So much for the slow speed limit, too!  The kids love it! haha!
You also drive on the left side of the road here, too.  So everything is really backwards to me and I've had to really adjust to make it feel even somewhat natural!  They don't really have stoplights, but they do have lots of round abouts.  The one right by our house is made up of a stack of big painted tires that say, "keep left."  Lots of traffic, and there's not much going "around" a circle, but everyone knows the rule, I guess!  There are larger University buses, but you kind of catch what you can around here.  Certainly not Community Transit, but it gets the job done!

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