I Survived the Bus Ride!

This is a picture of our buses. 
They are probably the coolest looking buses I've ever ridden in.

Our traveling didn't end when our plane landed in Port-A-Prince.  As soon as we made it through customs, we headed straight to these buses that were waiting to take us (and other groups that have come from all over the U.S.) on a 6-8 hour bus ride to St. Louis du Nord, where we were going to be staying.  These weren't just any ordinary buses, they were like school buses on steroids!  These big,colorful buses were driven like tanks.  The only problem was although they look really cool on the outside, the inside is really small. You can fit 2 people per seat, but the isles are really close together so there is pretty much no middle isle to walk down, you have to walk on top of the seats to get to your seat.  Most of the roads we drove on were small, unpaved, pothole filled, one-lane roads. There weren't any stop signs and I only saw one traffic light during my entire stay in Haiti. The further we drove into the mountains, the more bumpy and crazy the driving became.  I've heard people say that New York taxi drivers are the craziest drivers; but they have nothing on Haitian drivers!  We were in a bus, on mountain roads, and our bus driver was passing cars in front of us and narrowly missing cars that were coming the other way!  They were driving the buses through rivers and streams and at times, it seemed like the bus drivers were racing against each other trying to see who would get in the lead. We were really happy when we finally arrived at our destination, but we were even happier when we found out that we didn't have to take the bus back to the airport when we would leave! 

The video below is a short clip I took on the bus ride of us going past a tent city in Port-A-Prince. The reason it's all tinted red, is because the windows on the bus are tinted red and mine wouldn't open.