After contemplating my options, I
finally decided to take a bus to Porto Alegre last minute. I figured arriving
around 10pm was worth not having to be up early the next morning, since I was
meeting my husband, Jake, at the airport at 11:45am. However, after an hour on
the bus, I was still only half way to the centro;
meaning I still had to sit on the bus for another 20ish minutes and wait for
the 7pm bus to Porto Alegre. At that rate, I was looking at arriving at
midnight. I decided it was better to eat my free dinner at FURG and try my luck
with the 7am bus the next morning.
At 6:15am, I woke up and made my way to
the centro. I was able to catch the
7am bus, and made my way to the Porto Alegre airport. The first issue of the
day was arriving 15 minutes after Jake’s plane was supposed to land, to find out
his plane was delayed an hour. The issues only piled up after that.
We missed the 2pm bus by a few minutes
and instead took our time to eat and relax until the 3pm bus. I had never heard
of this bus company before and made the mistake of buying sem seguro tickets. (I found out later that com seguro means that if you are injured in an accident, you
receive money from the bus company.) Twenty minutes after our midway snack
break, our bus broke down. We were told another bus was on its way, but was
about 2 hours out. By this point, it started to get dark. To top it off, the
bus did not have a hazard kit. Someone called the police to say we did not feel
safe, but they never showed up.
Finally, a bus arrived, but the issue
was there were only 18 seats for the 40 passengers. Jake and I were able to get
onto the first bus, but this meant leaving his luggage behind with the broken
bus. As we were switching busses, we found out the original bus had ran out of
gas (if I understood correctly). Either way, we were finally on our way home,
which we finally reached at 10pm. To make things better, we ate some awesome bauru and called it a night!
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| Jake eating bauru |
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