I took an overnight bus to Mangalore this weekend after a gap of over ten years. I usually drive or take a flight. I couldn’t drive because I was going there to collect my brand new car. Flights are expensive and also inconvenient. You have to wake up early, take a cab to the airport, go through security, wait for the flight, fly, collect your baggage and take a cab again.With a bus, you just board the damn thing and get down. How bad can it get, right?
Poorly maintained and smelly buses. Drivers who take full advantage of the super power called the power steering. In a sleeper bus, you can neither sit down nor sleep comfortably. You exist in this weird limbo of half wakefulness, waiting for the next curve to hang onto dear life by the curtain rod. So yeah. Never again.