The Buce

The buce is how our bus driver pronounced the word, bus. His name was Mickey Nolan and what a colorful character he was. We disliked him at first but soon found him to be a wealth of knowledge, a great storyteller, a humorist, and most important, a good organizer and leader.

He would give instructions at the end of each day: "Now listen up- breakfie at sex terdy-ya hare- sex terdy, sex terdy, sex terdy. Buce leaves one orr later-if yer late-I'll ave yer ass".

Driving the large buce on those narrow, winding roads was no easy task. Mickey was quite skilled and very accommodating, stopping frequently for photo opps.

One interesting part of the bus was the location of the toilet-it was located below seat level. Not only was it difficult to access, but it was extremely small. Needless to say it was used infrequently.