Transportation Blog

A travelogue entry about how to travel by bus from Bogota to Villa de Leyva, Colombia. First, you must change buses in Tunja when going between these two cities. Expect to pay around 19,000 pesos total for the two buses. The total travel time is around four and a half hours.

By anybody’s standards, transportation in Iceland is expensive. As this is an extreme budget travel guide, the best information that I can provide on this country’s transportation network is to avoid it at all costs.

REYKJAVIK, Iceland- Iceland has one highway, it circumabulates the country, forming a perfect ring. Not surprisingly, it is come to be called Ring Road, or Route 1, and it covers a distance of roughly 1,300 km. To get between north and south, east and west in Iceland you travel around the coast on this highway [...]

HLADIR, Iceland- I saw another one of those large, converted military trucks parked in the gas station in Hladir, on the banks of Hvalfjordur — a fjord just north of Reykjavik. Only this one was painted nicely white and had florescent orange and bright yellow stripes, it was clearly an official vehicle — a rescue truck. As [...]

Collectivo Transportation on Mexico Coast ZIPOLITE, Mexico- I love traveling in coastal regions, if for no other reason than the fact that it is simple: there is often only one road and two choices, you either go this way along the coast or that way — go any other way and you are inland, not [...]

Bicycle Travel on Vagabond Journey Ever dream of just getting on a bicycle, pushing down one peddle, then the other,  feeling the wind catch your hair, and just keep going like this into the farthest horizon? Well, you can. This is how: Bicycle Travel on Vagabond Journey Luke Sorenson, a seasoned international bicycle traveler, is [...]

Crowded Bus from Rio Dulce to Flores Guatemala At one PM I boarded a bus from Rio Dulce bound for Flores — one tick away from Mexico. One minute later I realized that I would be riding this bus for three hours without a seat, crammed in between other unfortunate passengers without seats, resting my [...]

SUCHITOTO, El Salvador- I cannot say that I have ever wondered about where my family’s old cars went after junking them in the USA. More than likely, they remained as junk and were picked clean of parts like a corpse before a gang of vultures. Though there is a reasonable chance that the cars you [...]

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador- I looked up from a walk over the bridge in Rio Dulce to find a passenger bus parked in the road. In its front window was a placard saying, “San Salvador.”

Could this bus really be going all the way to the capital of El Salvador from the eastern fringes of Guatemala?

I asked Chaya if she thought that the “San Salvador” that was supposingly this buses final destination was the San Salvador that we would want to go to in a couple of weeks. She did not think it was even worth asking: of course this bus in the Guatemala jungle was not going direction to the capital city of El Salvador.