In March 1970, a group of eleven strangers climbed into a double-decker bus in Bristol and set off on a 40,000 adventure that took them to to Canada, America, Mexico, Columbia, Ecuador and Peru. And now, some of the group have reunited 🚌
double decker bus 40,000 miles around the world have reunited fifty years later.
Speaking of their epic adventure, Bernice Poole said: ‘It modelled my life. We’ve all learnt so much from it.’ Braving ‘blistering’ desert heat and and bone-chilling cold, the group spent 22 months aboard their less-than 50mph bus. But sadly, it was in Peru that the journey would come to an abrupt end, when the group came across a low-lying bridge across the River Chira.
He said: ‘It was an amazing journey, putting so many people together in such a confined space there were inevitably arguments.Sadly, the group said farewell to the bus when it became submerged in River Chira, Peru John explained: ‘Unfortunately we bought a bus that was too high for the American roads – so as soon as we got there we started hitting bridges.
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