Tuesday night we decided to finally figure out Santa Cruz public transportation. This would be a microbus. We wanted to figure out how to take them on our own. There are literally 100's of different lines throughout the city. There is no organized map or anything either. These buses run their routes and just stop to pick up people who flag them down by waving their hand to the side. It only costs 1.80 Bs (which is about .25 c). We took the 20 from school which runs right by SCCLC and up the Double Via which is our main road to almost everything. It runs through all of the rings (there are 7 rings that run around the city from the center out). ANYWAY We took the 20 to the Hipermaxi (local grocery chain), bought groceries and caught the 50 home which to our surprise went not only close to our house, but less than a half block from our house! What a blessing! We finally have freedom to go places we never would have known how to without taking a taxi!
The ride home was pretty humorous! It was jammed packed with people and we only had standing room with our groceries. The best part was these buses aren't made for tall Americans... So we had to kind of crouch down while standing.. :( It was an adventure.
I finally have the feeling of Love for this city, it is no longer this dirty big city that really doesn't make sense. I feel like this town is just a little neighborhood that I can get around in and go shopping, see my friends and minister to the community!
Maybe this is going to be our next home? God has been opening our eyes to that possibility!
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