Ready to go!

On Thursday I recovered my passport from the Brazillian embassy and was ready to go. I decided to bypass any potential airport delays by taking a bus down to New York and then catching a train to Florida. That night, I hopped aboard one of the new Greyhound buses (that has WiFi capabilities) and headed off to New York. The journey was uneventful until we hit Niagara Falls, NY.

There is a saying – 'The heights of human genius has its limits, but the depths of human stupidity is bottomless'. I got to see an example of this as we pulled into US customs at the border. One of the Einsteins onboard decided that now was the perfect time to start fooling around with electronic equipment. Apparently this fool had never heard of 9/11 or that Nigerian underwear bomber because he figured that the best time to start messing with suspicious electronics was when the border patrol was checking out the bus with their bomb sniffing dogs. I'm also sure that he thought his brown Arabic complexion would be a bonus too. When the bus driver got wind of what he was up to, he read him the riot act! He made him dismantle the device, remove all his belongings from the bus and remove everything he had on him (except the clothes on his back). What an idiot! I'm sure that we would still be stuck at the border if the customs agents had found him instead of the driver.