#Bus journey

[yellowmanula]

Wspomnienie z trasy do Fire Club Tattoo 💥 świętowaliśmy 20-lecie kariery DJskiej najwspanialszego Rafała aka 𝙍𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙕𝙀𝙍𝙊𝙨𝙞𝙭

[developingdem]

Bus Journey

[ostiviawrites]

When your bus and train has been delayed so much in one day your journey takes 9 hours when your entire journey could be driven in less than 3 hours total.

[celestesinsight]

January 18, 2024!

What a relief it was to finally reach Delhi after about two days of journey!

First the Rajdhani, we were supposed to travel in, got cancelled. Then, we booked tatkal tickets on another train, but it got delayed for 12 hours. When we reached Cuttack station to board that train, we found out the train hadn't even started from Puri, its destination station. We had to wait for another 4 hours before we could actually board the train and start our journey. And after spending about 36 hours on the train, we reached our destination.

But our journey didn't end there, as we had to travel to my sister's house in Panipat. After spending 3 more hours on the bus, we finally reached the warmth of home.

[fierykitten2]

So I just discovered I’m not very street smart. I took the wrong bus to get home turning what could’ve been a 5-minute bus journey or 20-30-minute walk home into a trip lasting about 35 minutes (including the wait for the bus, the bus journey and walking home from the stop I got out from). What’s worse is the fact that my route home today joined up with the route I normally walk through to get home about halfway through (I’d say I walked for about 15 minutes but idk)

[myths-and-girls]

Two pet peeves I have about the bus:

- People who talk very loudly on the phone - it's even worse if I can hear the person on the other end

- People who listen to music/watch something on their phone without earphones or headphones

It drives me up. The. Fucking. Wall.

[jezawitha-z]

Bus Journey - Tarlac City

🗓️ Sunday | January 14, 2024

Ito yung dahilan talaga kung bakit gusto ko bumyahe ng maaga tapos sasakay sa bus na open window. I just love the morning breeze. As I also mentioned previously, favorite transpo ko talaga ang bus.

Instead na magmukmok over the weekend, I decided to prepare my bag and just go kung saan man mapunta basta goal ko lang makasakay ng bus. As of now hanggang Tarlac lang muna tinatry ko as panimula but I'm planning na palayo ng palayo sa susunod.

Just having a quick search ng cafe sa Tarlac before leaving and I found this cozy place na pasok talaga sa taste ko.

📍Calle Cubeyertos

Fairlane Subdivision, 4011 4th St, Tarlac City, Tarlac

"You are now entering a stress free zone".

Tapos yung pinapatugtog pa nung time na yan:

It must have been love, but it's over now

It must have been good, but I lost it somehow

It must have been love, but it's over now

From the moment we touched, 'til the time had run out

Napapa-smile nalang ako sa ganda ng paligid pero nananadya talaga yung kanta. Hahahaha

I really love the ambience, with nature vibe, with antiques decor, napaka cozy, i found peace. I was able to talked to the owner and she's just an amazing woman like i don't want to end our convo and i hugged her when it's time say goodbye na. But I'll definitely go back here next weekend.

She was surprised na galing pa ako sa malayo na lugar and sobrang na appreciate nya kasi di pa daw talaga nya minamarket kasi the place and sila is not that ready pa. Parang pang family or friends lang daw muna sana pero syempre once it posted on social media at magustuhan ng mga tao, yun na yun.

Kasi she also asked me if paano ko daw nalaman yung lugar and since mag close ng 10am, mas maganda daw sana kung hapon ako pumunta (4pm-10pm) ulit sana mag open. So since may iba pa akong gagawin sa hapon kaya umaga ako nakapunta, i told her babalik ako next week at hapon na ako pupunta. Grabe laaaaang. Kaya di ko mapigilan yakapin syaaaa. "I'll expect you here again, punta ka ng hapon although medyo marami tao nun pero you can stay and bring your book and read", she added. Gooosssh myyyy heeeaaart 😭

The service, the vibe, the people, these makes me coming back talaga and ofcourse bonus na yung masarap din na food nila.

Sakto lang din na 10am close ng Calle Cubeyertos, open naman SM City Tarlac ng ganung oras and good thing 1 ride lang (tricycle - 30php) pero pwede rin lakarin.

Akala mo may passport eh pero ticket lang talaga yan ng The Beekeeper. Habang nag hihintay ng oras, nag ikot muna sa mall at may booksale tapos ayun siguro ito muna kailangan ko na libro ngayon. Hahahaha

Nung papasok na sa sinehan, para namang na bother si kuya na action papanoorin ko.

Him: Ayaw nyo po ng drama maam?

Me: Tapos na ako sa drama kuya. (drama sa buhay)

Him: Ah mag-isa ka lang pala kaya ayaw mo ng drama.

Kuya naman eh. Alam ko naman mag isa nalang talaga ako. Hahaha charot. Tapos yung ticket pala nila walang seat number agad unlike sa SM Clark. Buti nalang apat lang ata kami nanood kanina kaya kahit saan mo nalang talaga gusto umupo.

After manood, nag hintay nalang ako ng bus na may aircon since mainit na pauwi.

Now I should sleep na. 😴🥱

Thanks for today, self.

[itsnotthatdeepc]

January 1st 2025: Castlebar to Ennis via Galway (bus)

Quarter-century of living is coming around the corner and despite what everyone says, I'm more acutely aware of how fractional time is.

Essentially, all going well, I'm a third of the way through of what statistical averages suggest I have in the bank of good health for my lifespan, so I finally have to get the boot under my arse and start looking after myself better. This is the point where I don't have the cushion of playing off youthful resilience while I play poker with my own physical and mental state.

So, even though I don't like to make lengthy lists of resolutions- habit-forming and habit-breaking are the bane of life for someone with executive dysfunction- I am going to at least set aside a few good sense ideas that I can bounce back to whenever I start feeling the carpet pulling underneath my feet.

Consistency: whatever I do this year, whether it be objectively constructive or destructive, I should at least try to maintain it at a similar level for the sake of stability. Naturally, I don't want this to be a way of encouraging harmful behaviours but I don't believe I'll ever truly break from the pattern of indulging them if I don't reach a stage where I don't demonise myself for falling into them. Patchwork skills profiles and falling into extremes of achievement or disappointment are intense enough to disrupt large swathes of my time. I don't want to spend next December looking back at gaps in my memory or stagnant weeks of barely surviving. Even if I reach that stage, I want to be able able keep making the incremental efforts to move from survival to actually living.

Active living, not passive: A skill I have only in recent years begun to appreciate is the intensity at which I can hyperfocus. Enough that I can dissociate entirely from my environment and solely take in information from whatever I put my focus in. Although that state isn't triggered with any great regularity, that sense of detachment and dissociation is something I've become a lot more conscious of in the last few months. I've somehow reduced myself to a background observer of my own life; allowing other external circumstances and other people's choices and decisions dictate my life because it conserves my mental energy. It has its uses, certainly; using that coping mechanism has definitely been a factor in reducing the frequency of my migraine episodes. But the downside is that by doing so, I've almost unlearned how to do things for myself, to bear responsibility for my life and how I utilise my time. Too many days have been left in a paralytic state of dormancy; no sense of progression or regression, which completely throws my temporal awareness off balance in the moments when it becomes necessary to attune myself to societal obligations. 

Know the limits: 2024 was a year of stretching all the limits I had, whether they were deadlines, comfort levels, physical exertion or opportunities, to their maximum capacities. This isn't sustainable long-term. Instead, knowing what a hard limit is and internalising the consequences of hitting the wall is something I could badly do with working on. In another sense, it's also something I need to explore in other areas of my life; being able to decide what's a reasonable amount of leeway to give myself if I fall short of expectations or better judging when I have given too much of myself in a situation is something I have been improving at, but there's still a long way to go.

Be kind to myself: This is not the same as being nice to myself- that would mean letting myself chicken out of doing important stuff, which favours absolutely no one. I've spent so much of my life on this earth repressing aspects of myself, molding like a chameleon to fit the contexts and situations I find myself in. While on the surface, that allows for smoother interactions, the reality is that I have lost so much of my sense of self that I have a fragmentary collage of facets in place of a solid identity. I mold to suit expectations set by others, while chastising myself for not meeting them when I don't actually set them for myself. I say things that I think others would say, while not sharing my own opinions and feelings without a modicum of self-censorship. Writing has done a lot for releasing some aspects of myself that I keep locked away, but I could do well to have more good faith in people on a whole. Everyone wants to be understood as themselves on a level and I am coming to realise that you can only be encouraged by others being brave enough to share themselves truthfully with people.

Motivating life goals: since I was a child, I have always had an internal belief of “If I try hard enough, why shouldn't I be able to accomplish the goals that I set for myself.” There have been times where this innate determination has been sorely tested in various ways but ultimately, I have more or less been very successful. Barring my PhD- which I sincerely hope I can have completed next year- I have accomplished those internal, little-spoken of but dearly sought-after achievements that I expected to achieve within my lifetime. At the ripe old age of 24, I've made it further than my brain has ever considered planning for. Which says many things for my efficiency but is somewhat neglectful of how I look to live my life into later adulthood. I think it could be beneficial to settle on a new set of developmental milestones and career trajectories that I can follow. I have been very lucky in the opportunities and experiences that have come my way so far, but I can only avail of them if I can prepare myself for them. Now is a good time to think about the next decade of my life and what I can do to balance security with independence in a way that allows me to settle comfortably.

Relationships: As I get older, I have come to really value the people I choose to spend time with. I have some very important friendships and post-undergrad, I'm actually very proud of how I've been able to cultivate new and meaningful friendships. Having spent so much of my later childhood and adolescent years holding people at a distance and trying to avoid falling to surface-level situational friendships, be it due to geographical proximity or for the sake of not being alone, it feels immensely gratifying to know that having held out for nothing less than people whose principles I share and trusting that I will meet the people that I need to meet was worth it. Despite the social challenges and my own insecurities, I can indeed form meaningful relationships that have proven to be a lifeline in the darker moments of my life. I love them all more than I can probably express in any language and having finally understood the importance of interpersonal relationships, I hope to continue growing them and perhaps work on repairing those that are challenged or damaged. Life really is so much shorter than people credit it with and if we've made it to this moment in time, no matter where we are in life, then we owe it to ourselves to take advantage of it as best we can, no matter how you measure your best or how that measurement can change from one day to the next.

I don't know how often I'm going to write this blog. My travels are likely to be of a lesser distance and frequency, as my academic obligations start to stack up, but I have found that with transportation, generally a contradiction of travelling somewhere while conversely remaining stationary, I often find myself thinking over various situations; considering alternative interpretations of past events or positing variations of possible future ones. It can be a stimulating exercise and I think it could serve me- and perhaps somebody else- to be able to categorise and compile these thoughts somewhere from time to time. Even if it's just to remove the burden on my mind on occasion. After all, I don't do well with habits. But I do have a penchant for overthinking, so perhaps this can be a starting point for working on that consistency. 

Slán go fóill agus athbhliain faoi mhaise daoibh 🎆

C ~

[talkerstravels]

Lima To Cusco Bus Journey: Avoiding The 40-Hour Nightmare

To avoid the grueling 40-hour bus ride from Lima to Cusco, break up the journey by stopping in Arequipa, a charming colonial city. Spend a day or two exploring the White City's stunning architecture and nearby Colca Canyon. Alternatively, fly from Lima to Cusco for a quick and scenic 1.5-hour trip, allowing more time to acclimate to Cusco’s altitude and enjoy its rich history and vibrant culture.

Follow Social Media Pages: Facebook | Instagram

[lostpsychoab]

As the sun cast its golden rays through the window of the bus, illuminating the faces of weary travelers, my gaze settled upon an unexpected sight: a man bearing an uncanny resemblance to the beloved comedic icon, Rowan Atkinson, famously known as Mr. Bean. Yet, unlike the bumbling, whimsical character we all know and love, this doppelganger exuded an air of quiet maturity.

Throughout the two-hour journey, not once did he break the silence with a single word. His eyes, though tired, sparkled with a quiet determination, as if he were searching for something beyond the passing scenery outside. There was a palpable sense of longing, of hope, that seemed to radiate from his very being.

I couldn't help but wonder about the life this man led outside the confines of this bus. While the world knew Rowan Atkinson for his comedic brilliance, here was a man who, perhaps, navigated through the complexities of everyday life with a different set of challenges. His silence spoke volumes, each moment pregnant with untold stories and unspoken emotions.

As we reached his stop, he rose from his seat, his movements deliberate yet graceful. With a brief nod to the driver, he stepped off the bus, disappearing into the bustling streets beyond. And in that moment, I couldn't shake the feeling that I had just witnessed a glimpse into the life of someone who, despite the struggles and hardships, found solace in the simple act of searching, of hoping, of being at peace with the journey, wherever it may lead.

[mixedupmilly]

Sat on a bus

I’m sat on a bus winding its way through town and country, whilst I can hear the excitement of chatter and laughter coming from the school children on board. There are roadworks everywhere, but still the driver navigates the route and diversions with confidence and ease. It won’t be long now till I reach my destination. Thankyou driver.

[ostiviawrites]

When public transport is so bad and your bus and train got delayed so much in one day that your journey time is now 8 hours when it takes less than 3 hours to drive the same route

[tatretot]

hellooo danandphilgames buddies!! happy belated 10 year (more like 5 but shhh) anniversary :-)

[umissquotedme]