We ended up camping out on the bus
Kaleigh Brown
25yrs
Vancouver, Canada
Okay heres one story I have. I dont know that its my epic life story, but
its a story. It started out as a terrible day, but things happen for a
reason!
So I was travelling in Vietnam in November 2007, they were experiencing
the worst flooding they’d had in a decade. I was there with 6 friends from
my exchange. We were taking a bus from Hanoi to Da Nang, but the bus got
stopped in Hue because of the flooding. There was a bunch of confusion
about whether we were going to continue or not. The bus driver all of
sudden couldn’t speak english anymore, even though he spoke fluently to us
when we boarded the bus. There were a few Vietnamese people that stayed on
the bus, so we stayed on as well. We ended up camping out on the bus for
several hours in protest because they wouldn’t tell us what was going on.
After much argument with the bus driver and his sketchy crew, we ended up
having to stay in Hue for the night and had to book a flight to saigon the
next day. All of us were pretty angry as we only had 10 days in Vietnam
and wanted to see as much as we could. We ended up going out that night to
this cramped open-air bar with photos and writing all over the walls from
people passing through. Probably the coolest bar i’ve ever set foot in. We
all got pretty hammered. Made lots of new friends, went running through
the flooded streets of Hue. Had one of the most amazing nights. Thank god
for floods and mean Vietnamese bus drivers!
There ya go, thats one of my many stories.
-Kaleigh
