May 02, 2010
10.40 p.m.
Dear all,
Despite the absolutely gorgeous snow-covered road up, the Grande Prairie adventure seems to have gone off with a rocky start, amidst passenger delays and…yet another broken-down Greyhound in Nowheresville? (Insert cue for story about being stranded in rural Ontario four hours outside Thunder Bay, though it might be an irrelevant anecdote since we’re not actually on said broken bus.) With the transfer of passengers from the broken bus to this one, potentially putting us behind schedule by a good hour, that three-hour stopover tomorrow in Spruce Grove (which remains unfindable on the massive Canada map) suddenly looks like a stroke of absolute brilliance.
On a completely separate note, the infernal cough/lung business seems to be improving considerably – they really should have put me on antibiotics way back when I first visited the doctor. Though the fact that they had difficulty with finding my pulse and blood pressure should have been a fair clue to incompetence of some sort. I remain somewhat daftly running on adrenaline, nerves, and antibiotics, having clocked maybe three hours of sleep in the last 24 hours.
Back to the present situation at hand: the bus driver is attempting to herd passengers from the other bus to this. Herding kittens might have been easier, being somewhat adorable and less irate.
More to come when something of more interest occurs.
Love,
-M.
10.55 p.m.
Oh, thank goodness. An empty bus showed up for the stranded passengers. Perhaps on our way soon? I don’t understand why we keep backing up. Also, the bus driver keeps coming around to count the passengers on the bus, despite having no change in attendance. General confusion ensues. People fret about whether their connection buses in Kamloops will wait for them. Been in that boat – not fun in the slightest.
Can we just get this show on the road already?
-M.
11.01 p.m.
Really? Are we counting people again? Nothing’s changed! No one has boarded the bus! An alarming sense of déjà vu is slowly setting in.
And…we’re off! Rock and roll! Further adventures ahead.
-M.
