Having spent some good days with Pabitra, we headed for Amarillo, Texas - again by Greyhound bus. It's about 30 hour bus journey. Starting was good, we're crossing so many cities (Knoxville, Nashville, Memphis in Tennesse state, Little Rock in Arkansas state, Russelville, many others and Oklohama city in OKlohama state). Landscapes were being changed gradually as we proceeded further towards west. In Arkansas we saw a lot of farmland, and farmers using private planes in spraying their crops in the fields.
Upto Okohama city the journey was good. Then problem started. As the scheduled bus' airconditioning was not working, the driver didn't reload. All passenegers were stuck up for long 9 hours. But surprisingly, all passengers kept very calm & quiet. If that incident happened in our country, passengers might be very agitated towards the bus people.
By 11.30 pm, an aletrnate bus came from Dallas & our journey restarted towards Los Angels. But by then we're very exhausted. When we reached Amarillo at 5 am in the next morning, we're on buses for 2 nights & 2 days altogether.
Despite long distances and all hassles on the way, the bus journey provided us a good opportunity to see various mid-American cities and states (also observe peoples' behaviours and culture to some extent). In Oklohama city the normal day wind was so strong that I feared to be blown away while walking a small distance from the bus station.
I'll never forget those experiences.
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