Not much here
Trip Start
Mar 09, 2007
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Trip End
??? ??, 2008
Guardanda, Ecuador
Monday, March 31, 2008
I almost forgot to tell you, the closest my 35mm SLR camera has ever gotten to getting robbed was in Ecuador. It happened when we left Quito for Banos in the Quito bus station. The bus was fairly empty, mom and I were the first ones to get on, then a few other people got on. My bag backpack didn't fit above the seats, so some lady started being really nice to me and telling me that I should put it down below that the bus driver would watch it and take care of it. So I put my little bag down (with my camera and crap in it) on the bus seat and told my mom to watch it while I went out and put the bag under the bus.
I was gone literally a minute. When I got back my bag was zipped open and mom was asking me if I left it unzipped. Nope. Looked inside the bad and nothing was missing. There was literally only 4 people on the bus and they were all around us. I sat down felling sketched out and wondering how it happened. The bus wasn't scheduled to leave for another few minutes. As departure time dwindled, I noticed that they people sitting around us all left the bus to 'go get something' or 'make a call.' The bus pulled out of the terminal with only my mom and I. Those 3 to 4 other people on the bus were there to totally try and steal our shit. I had thought it was really strange how overly friendly the lady was with helping me with my baggage. It seemed so obvious afterwords, but it literally all happened within a couple of minutes. Sketchy as fuck. I should have realized that my mom wasn't used to watching personal belongings and I should have thought twice about having her watch my stuff.
