Whether you're in Kathmandu or Cozumel, the bus is where it all happens. It's where you meet the people, hear the language and taste the culture for the price of a fare.

Whether it's a double-decker touring London or a 40-year-old school bus creaking up the Andes, if you've traveled you've taken a bus. You've shared your seat with a goat and been robbed in eight languages. You've learned philosophy from beekeepers and argued with nuns. You've broken down and walked for miles. You've gotten lost and ended up staying. You've fallen in love, been invited home for dinner and met friends you will never forget.

But the bus, like few others, is also the place where cultures and classes sit side by side. It is were you've seen oppression and poverty. Where you've heard tales of sweatshop labor and confronted the remnants of war. And it is where you've witness in the eyes of those seated around you, the realities of life beyond the guidebooks. 

Those are the bus stories you'll find in "Where Do We Get Off? Armed Bandits, Angry Roosters And Other True Tales of Global Bus Travel." 

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