A MYSTERY BUS TRIP

A bus trip with senior citizens is always interesting but a recent one to a California casino from Yuma AZ was even more exciting because the bus driver didn't seem to know where he was going. This bus company picks up riders at several different locations around Yuma and the Foothills which is the first stop in the trip toward San Diego. The second stop was to be at a store in Yuma proper. The driver got us to the lot in a way a native might not have gone. But he didn't stop. Instead he went on to an older RV park that was not designed to handle a 45 passenger bus starling a number of winter visitors. He apparently didn't know where he was to pick up. After finding the proper spot to pick up a group of worried travelers he said he was on to a location in Old Town to pickup the rest of our gambling group. Even those who don't drive much in the city knew that he made a left turn on a connecting street when he should have turned right. It took him some time to figure out maybe he was going the wrong way and he had to turn the big bus around in a residential area. Needless to say, after the final passengers were loaded, many of us were watching to make sure he actually made the correct turn onto the interstate, heading west toward San Diego and not east toward Phoenix. The eager group of gamblers did make it to the casino to spend several hours losing their money. The driver's route back to the spots at which he had to disburse passengers was a little more direct although not the one a seasoned Yuma driver would have taken. Fortunately, most of the captive passengers chuckled about the lost bus. Some even maybe even enjoyed seeing parts of Yuma they probably have never seen and won't see again. I think the driver was from Phoenix and was using a GPS to navigate. If so, I can understand. My GPS once told me to turn left into an orange grove in Florida. It's in a drawer somewhere now.