tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872278118471557737.post7392015079059563376..comments2023-10-06T10:01:24.490-04:00Comments on A LITTLE "PEACE" OF BRAZIL: ON THE SKIDSCarolinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07712925834229282680noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872278118471557737.post-20356657051049456442009-01-20T04:21:00.000-05:002009-01-20T04:21:00.000-05:00WOW. Thanks for sharing your amazing adventures!WOW. Thanks for sharing your amazing adventures!Tara Bennetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18445133464180170403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872278118471557737.post-88093873213932606112009-01-16T12:16:00.000-05:002009-01-16T12:16:00.000-05:00My PC partner and I had a bus "desastre" on our fi...My PC partner and I had a bus "desastre" on our first trip to our site. Hell of a way to start off your Peace Corps tour.<BR/><BR/>Our future home was 100km from our jump off city, Ponta Pora, Mato Grosso, which is on the Paraguayan border. Our bus left around 3:00 for the 2 hr trip. I happened to be watching the driver via the inside mirror when all of a sudden his eyes tripled in size as he frantically began turning the steering wheel left and right trying to prevent the bus from leaving the road. He didn't. Seems the steering had gone out on the old bus. Luckily for us, this was savanna country....flat with low brush; not trees. <BR/><BR/>The bus leaned, bounced and tumbled its way across the bar ditch, but didn't flip. It came to rest in a cloud of red Mato Grosso dust with two stunned gringos trying to figure out what had just happened.<BR/><BR/>My partner and I stayed with the bus but everyone else would hop a ride with whatever type of transportation came down the road over the next hours. The replacement bus gathered us up and we finally arrived at our PC site around midnight.<BR/><BR/>And the bus trip in the rainy season? For another time.<BR/><BR/>Gene Whitmer<BR/>MT/ES 64-67Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com