Thrills

Those of you who think NASCAR and Formula One drivers have talent... those guys ain't got NUTHIN' on the guys who drive buses on the Isle of Capri and along the coastal road of the Amalfi Coast. Those rides were well worth the money spent. Flying around corners, horns honking to let everyone know "A big-ass bus is coming, get outta the way!" Those drivers slid the buses into spaces I would swear were at least a foot narrower than the bus. At one point, the driver jumped out and pulled in the side mirror to make it around a corner. And the horn that he honked to let people know he was coming was hilarious. It had a high-pitched and lower-pitched tone which he would alternate, so it sounded like "Eeh-aaaah-eeeeh-aaaah!" I was never so glad to be on solid ground as I was after that ride. It was beautiful, of course... straight cliffs dropping to the ocean on one side, cantilevered hotels and houses on the other. Makes you admire the engineers that figured out how in the world to build a road and buildings on that mountainside. After seeing how beautiful it is though, I can understand why they were determined to do so!