Such a pretty trip this bus trip deserves a post of its own. It didn't start out that great with the bus company trying to put us on a 'chicken bus' for what we'd been told was a scenic 'don't miss'. So Ben and I got off and he went to a different bus company and I held out for the Noon bus with the same company which was a panoramic bus. Ben was right --they did try to make me pay again, but I waited it out and dealt with it through the cops and eventually just walked on to that bus when it came and they backed off.
I scored a front seat upstairs--it couldn't have been better for what proved to be a fabulous variety of views in the high desert
