Know Your Cities Streets

Today i was hanging out with my friend Pedro as he packed and got ready to go to Peru for a week of work. The time came for us to say our good byes as he was headed to the airport and he took me to my Transmilenio stop, Mundo Advenutra, up through Caracas all the way to the 146 stop. That is past 32 stops... but its was B5, so thank the lord we didn't stop at all 32, that is just for perspective to see about how long the trip was. I did not take Pedros advice and switch lines, so i could take an alternate route to the north which was thirty minutes fast, why? Because i thought i had the system down. Of the two lines that travel to the north, one takes the innercity express way that has zero lights, and the other goes right through the city streets, sigh... Oh well, i really, literally, got to see ALL of Bogota today, all of it.
Also worth note, another interesting discovery about my favroite mode of Transportation. As you can see from the photo, the middle of the bus is like a slinky, this is because the bus is required, when taking more urbanized routes to perform sharp U-Turns and 45 degree turns at normal city intersections, well you can also stand in the middle part of these buses during your travels (it happens to be quite a roomy area of the bus). Well, this whole area pivots, as you can guess, to make these turns, and when you stand on the pivoting area you move as well. I discovered this today, with one foot on the pivoting area and one off. We made a 45 degree turn, at break neck speeds, of course (you could feel the bus tipping) and half of my body was twisted violently a full 45 degrees, while the other foot kept half my body planted. This had my almost falling down to my knees in front of the entire bus, what a wonderful system.
And on a completely different note, i thought i broke my big toe for half a second. The wind was ripping down 7A, and a kiosk with a large umbrella, i think for Tigo, was on the street. When the wind ripped by it caught the umbrella and the umbrella actually blew the entire kiosk over. Yours truly happen to by walking by at that exact time, and i had enough reaction time to jump out of the way and remove most of my body from harms way, while wearing a back pack full of books, however i didn't jump far enough because my foot was crushed, specifically my toes. I let out a howl that woke the dead, and made everybody on 7A, lunch time traffic, look and stare. But its okay because i only had another 10 or so blocks left on my walk... you can imagine the afternoon bus ride, too.