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the price is 150 pesos ($15), but the minimum is two tourists. Would you pay 300?" I said,
"Maybe by 9 a.m. tomorrow they will have another passenger." I let it go.
I wanted to leave earlier, and the Central Terminal had a bus leaving at 8 a.m. for 120
pesos, round trip. Of course, I'd have to get myself to the terminal.
Up at 6.30 a.m., coffee for breakfast and with a map in hand, I walked, headed for the
Central Terminal. I came to a glorieta (traffic circle) with its multiple spokes. As I perused
my map, a young man asked me where I wanted to go. "Camionero Central," I said.
He waved his hand, pointing beyond the glorieta and said, "Detras, detras (behind, be-
hind)."
I crossed the street and there was no access to "behind." I had walked a block east, now
I had to retrace my steps and go two blocks west where I found "behind,” a city bus stop
that would take me to the Central Terminal.
I arrived twenty minutes before the 8 a.m. departure. I went over to ADO First Class win-
dow and asked for a round trip ticket for Edzna. "Sorry, that bus has been canceled today.
You'll have to go to South Terminal, Second Class."
Showing my map, I asked directions. The clerk looked at the map, saw a bus icon, and
pointed, "Here." It wasn't too far.
I caught a second city bus and told the driver I wanted to go to "South Terminal."
He said I'd have to transfer. "Here" was not South Terminal!
I mentioned that I was trying to go to Edzna. A man, with some English, volunteered, "You
want to get off at the Mercado and take a colectivo (minivan)." The Mercado was also the
transfer point. I got off the bus and started to look for a colectivo .
A woman, who was on her way to work, overheard. She said, "Let me take you, it's on my
way."
I said, "I want to go to Edzna.”
She insisted that South Terminal was where I should buy a ticket. I didn't want to appear
rude, so I followed her, and we got on the next bus to South Terminal.
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