June 11 2010 - Drugs, Skateboarders, Pregnancys, Ambulances, Delays, Reboards and Greyhound

Hello there,

First of all, yes, I kept true to my word and just looked and didn't buy anything yesterday :)

So yesterday night I went to the Greyhoundstation to take the bus to Colorado Springs. There I met Claudette. She's probably in her fourties or so. She told me she came in on a bus that morning but that it had been so late that she missed her connection.

Now, if you've gone Greyhound before, you know that you have to line up to get into the bus, it's kind of first come first serve. So there are two doors. One is for reboarders. Those who have to get off the bus because it's being cleaned and get on the same bus again. They are aloud to go in first with the reboard pass the driver gives them. The second door is for those who start their journey there, in this case Salt Lake City.

I clearly belonged to the second door. Claudette on the other hand was aloud to doot 1 even though she didn't have a reboardpass but just because she had been sitting around there for 16 houers. So we decided to sneek me in as a reboarder too. It took some persuasion but in the end I got on with Claudette.

In the bus station we had also met a 20 year old skateboarder who seems to be leading a pretty crazy life. He's travelling around with his skatboard and his 'always high' mum's credit card for which his rich stepdad pays. His only worry at that moment was where to hide his drugs so the security lady wouldn't find them. He finally decided his shoes where a good place.

Three rows behind us in the bus (that had left half an hour late) where three 'girls' who didn't know each other but had found out they all had something incommon, they were all pregnant. So in the middle of the night, one of this girls insisted that the driver called her an abulance because she wasn't feeling well (could have to do with the fact that she was about 300 pounds and had just eaten McDonalds stuff at 3am). So we pulled aside and waited for the paramedicas to get there and of course we lost time again.

When we finally made it to Denver I had just enough time to switch buses. Now I am in Colorado Springs, which is really beautiful with Pikes Peek and everything. I'm walking around the city and enjoing the sun.



Does somebody remember the Dr. Quinn episode where she climbed up Pikes Peek? I think it looked way higher on TV than in reality!


The Pioneer Museum of Colorado Springs!


Streets of Colorado Springs. I have to say, I really like it here!

I don't even have to carry my backpack because suprisingly it fit into a locker at the Greyhound station. At 3.40pm my bus is going back to Denver where I will visit the next Hard Rock Cafe. Talk to you then.

Oh before I forget. This is for those who took the Romance on the Road seminar with me. Look what I found. Does the name (obviously without the temple in the end) remind you of something?



xoxo