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Posted on August 27, 2006 @ 9:18 am by massimo | Filed under: blog, people, travel, wordpress

bus coach lorry aynaku digital illustration adobe

For some reason I was always on the run in my wild, wild years. And I was used to buses and mini-buses, coaches, lorries and trucks to travel around. I travelled on the cheap -mostly- and often ran the risk to never get where I planned, safely and according to my schedule. In Africa and Asia there is a kind of contest between the carriers going to the same place, village, town, or beach: they actually run a race to get there before their competitors. And also, every cheap means of transportation never run on time! Sometimes hard rains make a main road devastated and every sort of coach packed by the common run of mankind, has to take off its usual run…Sometimes the roads are too bad for a coach to go, to force its driver to have the passengers getting off and all together hardly pushing, until the bloody wreck can go again. No matter if this motion runs some of the passengers into the ground, the expedition has to go on - you see. I wonder how many trips of the sort I did, but I am pretty sure that some of them have been really formative for me in the long run.
I learned to hold on, I learned that some people are forcibly on the run because of need, poverty or wars. I learned that those slow and wrecked coaches are always able to run passengers back home, despite their discouraging features. And the drivers, they really happen to be as decisive as soul-rescuing priests along the road: maybe that’s why they always leave their engines running!

Illustration Friday’s topic is: run

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7 people have left comments

WOW! What a beautiful transport you created here! This has a very magical quality to it and the little rainbow adds to the magic! Great story and another wonderful adventure you took me on!

valgalart wrote on August 27, 2006 - 6:37 pm CEST

another wonderfully colored illo and story to go with it. only kinda cheap transport i rode where those jitni jeeps and buses in the PI and thailand. although korean cabbies are know to make a race of it too speically late night lol

michael dailey wrote on August 27, 2006 - 8:46 pm CEST

beautiful story and illustration..!

the enigma wrote on August 28, 2006 - 7:03 am CEST

I think Val took the words out of my mouth….there is definitely magic here. The rainbow is stunning…

Amy Zaleski wrote on August 28, 2006 - 4:28 pm CEST

this story and illo brings all sorts of memories back to me - maybe we went to some of the same places…

ks wrote on August 28, 2006 - 11:10 pm CEST

Hihi, good to take a philosophical eye on it :) In Indonesia I was often scared to death riding one of those buses. But its true, we always reached destination. And we never lost a passenger,no matter how many they managed to get stuck in the bus (or on the roof). “always on the run” - since reading the IF topic that line from the Lenny Kravitz song has been on my mind.

cristosova wrote on August 29, 2006 - 8:13 am CEST

Is there anywhere in the world you have not been? *jealous*. . .Beautiful illustration and story. The lighting is just magical!

Tiffini Elektra X wrote on September 3, 2006 - 11:12 pm CEST

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