My Adventure

I went home to see my parents in Detroit for a couple days last week. I was very relaxing and quiet... until it came time for me to come back to Chicago!

I bought a ticket on Megabus.com, a method of travel that I have used successfully many times to travel between the two cities. The bus was supposed to leave at 7:30pm on Friday evening.

My mom drove me to the bus stop and we waited for over an hour for the bus to come, but it didn’t come. We tried calling customer service but the representatives could tell us nothing about the bus’s estimated arrival time. We were stumped.

Then the unthinkable happened... a HUGE thunderstorm broke out and began soaking everyone at the uncovered bus stop. Thunder, lightening and high winds sent people running back to their cars.

When my mom and I were safely back to our car we realized that a young couple was still stranded out in the rain. They had no car to run to. So we drove up to them and invited them to jump into our back seat. They did.

After another twenty minutes a bus finally did come.... but it wasn’t coming to pick us up. It was the bus coming FROM Chicago which needed to drop people at other stops, change drivers, refuel and then pick everyone up. The driver said that it could take him up to another four hours to come and pick us up (a total delay of almost six hours).

The couple in our backseat (who had gotten engaged to one another the night before and who were going to Chicago for a relaxing vacation) decided to go and get one of their cars and simply drive to Chicago. They offered me a ride, and needing to get back to Chicago so that I could go to work on Saturday, I accepted! (I was reasonably sure that they were not ax murderers).

So for the next four and a half hours I drove to Chicago with two complete strangers. They were a very wonderful couple and they shared wonderful stories about their lives with me. I feel very blessed to have spent that short period with them.

I hope that by reading this short account, you can learn what I learned... that there are tremendously good people out in the world! Sometimes a healthy sense of adventure can bring you in contact with lots of amazing people! People on the same journey as ourselves (whether going to Chicago or on a pathway to God!).

Peace turtles!