by Uncle Bob Culver | May 18, 2018 | Bob's Bus Blog
Before I could guide thousands of international students on 7-10 day “cross county, cross cultural bus trips with the cross of Christ”, I had to learn how to lead myself out of harms way. As a typical adolescent—what my dad called a misguided youth—I was the type of...
by Uncle Bob Culver | Apr 19, 2018 | Bob's Bus Blog, Uncategorized
Taking a diversionary side trip from my methodical 8 pm – 8 am night watchman’s shift at my mother-in-law’s bedside, we hiked around the lake at her brother’s cabin in Nebraska. What’s the least expected thing you’d think you’d see beside a lake in a landlocked...
by Uncle Bob Culver | Apr 15, 2018 | Bob's Bus Blog, Uncategorized
On our first GO West bus adventure in 1985, just after hiking in the Grand Canyon, our bus pulled into the famous “four corners” of the United States where the boarders of Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado all touch in one spot. The above picture...
by Uncle Bob Culver | Apr 14, 2018 | Bob's Bus Blog, Uncategorized
Closest I ever came to anything as crazy as going over a cliff was when we owned a non synchronized stick shift 4 speed bus with a reverse gear that used the 2nd gear solenoid if you hoped to properly engage it into reverse. Once I was headed downhill in the TN Smoky...
by Uncle Bob Culver | Mar 26, 2018 | Bob's Bus Blog, Uncategorized
For 30 years on GO West bus trips we drove by this spot on the Missouri River without ever seeing it. Why: because we always drove at night after dinner in St Joesph Missouri, the home of two other famous GO West historic sites.* Here, near what is now Omaha Nebraska...
by Uncle Bob Culver | Dec 28, 2017 | Bob's Bus Blog
We left Atlanta on our red sleeper bus with a new transmission, but had to turn around in Chattanooga due to unrelated rickety steering alignment. On the disappointing ride home, I asked if everyone would rather receive a full refund or trust in the Lord for 1-way...
